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Lunar Outpost’s Well-Oiled Mission to the Moon
Lunar Outpost is teaming up with oil giant Castrol on its Lunar Voyage 1 mission, which aims to put the first robotic rover on the Moon’s south pole.
EO, AI, Weather Monitoring Sats Hitch a Ride on Transporter-11
SpaceX launched its 11th dedicated rideshare mission Friday afternoon that sent 116 satellites into orbit, including some for customers making their first trip to space.
SmallSat 2024: A Look Back at a Busy Week
The size of this year’s conference meant that the press wires were a fire hose of companies unveiling innovative technologies, new partnerships, and additional funding streams.
Benchmark Adds New Thruster, Security Partnerships
Benchmark Space Systems added Starlight’s Hall-effect thrusters (HET) and 21SoftWare’s security platform to its partner network.
Spaceline Wants to Solve Your Trajectory Problem
Ascending Node Technologies (ANT) launched its Spaceline 3D mission visualization software to help mission operators plan and optimize their flight paths.
Space Force Ups Launch Deal By $1.8B
A reminder of the military’s fast-growing demand for space access.
ESA Launches Accelerator to Kickstart the Lunar Economy
Only a handful of European spacecraft have ever made it to the Moon, but that could soon change if a new accelerator achieves its goal.
DARPA Awards LunA-10 Moon Infrastructure Project Contracts
A massive Moon economy, held together by a vast network of robots, is solidly in the works.
Atomic Clock Market to Grow to $1B, Future Market Insight Finds
Future Market Insights, a research firm, estimates the global atomic clock market will top $532M in sales this year and will nearly double to $1B in a decade, according to a report released Tuesday.
$1.6B in Q3 Space Investment, Seraphim Finds
Investment in the space economy is bouncing back from the sagging markets of last year, led by a couple of mega deals centered around investors’ growing appetite for commercial space stations.
Chinese Launch Startup Galactic Energy Experiences Launch Failure
First Rocket Lab, now Galactic Energy. The Chinese rocket startup suffered a launch failure yesterday after its Ceres-1 vehicle lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The midair failure destroyed a Chang Guang Jilin-1 Gaofen-04 B satellite. The failure comes days after Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket met a similar fate after launching a comparable-sized vehicle…
Relativity Breaks New Ground at Stennis
Relativity Space signed a seven-year lease on a test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to prepare for its 3D-printed Terran R rocket. The company will pay $2.76M for the initial lease on the Apollo-era A-2 stand, and has the option to take out another 10 years if needed. Relativity already has 10-year…
