ispace Sets Second Moon Landing Attempt For December
ispace is one of three private companies that will attempt Moon landings this winter, and the only mission not funded by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
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Boeing To Launch Groundbreaking Orbital Quantum Experiment
Quantum entanglement swapping has been demonstrated in the lab, but never before in space.
Slingshot Tracks Centaur Break-Up in HEO
The second stage of a ULA rocket that sent a NOAA weather satellite to orbit in 2018 broke apart dramatically in orbit last week, generating a debris cloud first tracked by Slingshot Aerospace.
New Glenn Debut Delayed Along With EscaPADE Mars Mission
Blue has yet to test fire New Glenn’s second stage or perform an integrated first stage engine test firing.
Quantum Timekeepers Raise $3.7M For A Precise Clock
“Literally everything we put into space will eventually have one of these things.”
ATLAS Raises $15M To Bolster Ground-Station Software Biz
“Some of us joke that we’re actually a software company with a network.”
There Aren’t Enough Satellite Thrusters For The SDA—Yet
Redwire is partnering with propulsion startup Phase Four to commercialize a NASA-designed Hall Effect Thruster.
Intuitive Machines Picked for Fourth Lunar Mission
NASA will pay Intuitive Machines $116.9M to deliver scientific payloads to the lunar South Pole.
Europa Clipper’s Chips Are Good Enough For Jupiter
JPL launched a Tiger Team to assess if the $5B spacecraft could survive its Jovian voyage as-is.
USSF Funds Impulse’s Massive High Orbit Kick Stage
Under the new STRATFI agreement, the first payload on Helios will be a DoD spacecraft.
How Nokia and Axiom Are Putting 4G on The Moon
Nokia has designed a “network in a box” that it will test on Intuitive Machine’s next uncrewed lunar mission.
NASA Finally Chooses Dragon for Starliner Crew Return
NASA officials decided that the two astronauts who piloted the Boeing Starliner on a test flight to the ISS will return on a SpaceX crew Dragon. Their eight-day mission will wind up lasting eight months.