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Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
There’s a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey’s character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership spinning out of control. The protagonist rises to the challenge with a polished piece of piloting and successfully links up with his objective. Real life, of course, isn’t quite this dramatic. Slow down that spin to a…
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, AstroForge’s Odin face post-deployment challenges
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, named Athena, is prepared for encapsulation inside SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings. Beneath the lander are rideshare payloads from Epic Aerospace (front), AstroForge (right), and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (behind). Image: SpaceX via Intuitive Machines Two spacecraft that launched as rideshare payloads on Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission are dealing with post-deployment…
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Rocket Lab Q4: Record Revenue, Neutron Delay, and a New Constellation Sat Offering
Rocket Lab posted record revenue in 2024 with 78% year-over-year growth, but also pushed its plans for the first Neutron launch to the second half of 2025. Rocket Lab reported full year financials on Feb. 27, along with a new eight-launch deal with Japanese company iQPS and a new satellite offering called Flatellite geared toward…
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Blue Origin Reveals NS-31 Crew For New Shepard’s 11th Human Flight
Blue Origin announced the six people flying on its NS-31 mission. The crew includes Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez, who brought the mission together. She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share…
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Chang’e-6 samples provide evidence suggesting global “magma ocean” on early moon
A researcher with the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, prepares the lunar samples collected by the Chang’e-6 mission at the institute in Beijing, capital of China, on Feb. 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Yu Fei) BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) — A new study of the lunar samples collected by China’s Chang’e-6 mission has verified the…
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Teledyne Launches Two Imaging Sensors in Sun-Synchronous Orbit NASA Explorer Missions
Teledyne Technologies, a leading provider of advanced imaging solutions, is proud to announce that sensors from Teledyne Space Imaging will play a key role in two prestigious NASA explorer missions that are ready to launch this month. Both missions launch on the same rocket on 28 February 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA.…
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Xona Secures $4.65 Million AFRL Contract to Demonstrate LEO-Based GPS Alternative
Xona Space Systems (Xona), the company developing a high-performance complementary alternative to GPS, announced that it has secured a contract with Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to demonstrate and mature resilient commercial PNT (Positioning, Navigation and Timing) solutions for DoD missions. This award, granted through the Space Technology Advanced Research – Fast-tracking Innovative Software and…
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The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend
CEDAR PARK, Texas—Early Sunday morning, while most of America is sleeping, a couple dozen engineers in Central Texas will have their eyes glued to monitors watching data stream in from a quarter-million miles away. These ground controllers at Firefly Aerospace hope that their robotic spacecraft, named Blue Ghost, will become the second commercial mission to…
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Swissto12 to Develop Antennas for SES’s O3b mPOWER for Remote Connectivity
SES selected Swissto12 to develop large aperture electronically steered antenna for its customer user terminals, Swissto12 announced on Feb. 27. This is Swissto12’s first antenna contract with SES. The antennas will support SES’s second-generation Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation, O3b mPOWER, which has been operational since 2024 and aims to provide high-performance connectivity to remote areas.…
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Skylo Raises $30M in Funding to Scale its Direct-to-Device Reach
Skylo’s executive team. From left: Dr. Andrew Kalman, Dr. Andrew Nuttall, Parthsarathi Trivedi, and Tarun Gupta. Photo: Skylo Skylo has raised $30 million in an oversubscribed funding round, funding that CEO Parthsarathi Trivedi tells Via Satellite the company plans to invest in market expansion to grow its position in the direct-to-device (D2D) market. NGP Capital…