AstroForge Provides an Update on its Brokkr-1 Demo Mission
Asteroid mining startup AstroForge provided a detailed update on its Brokkr-1 satellite demo mission in a blog post yesterday, revealing several hiccups it encountered and a three-month blitz to complete its refinery mission.
Helicity Raises $5M for In-Space Fusion Propulsion
Helicity Space, an in-space nuclear fusion propulsion startup, nabbed a $5M seed round to begin developing its novel engine.
Three Satellites Failed to Deploy from Transporter-9
It turns out Transporter-9 deployment didn’t go as smoothly as planned for some passengers. Momentus ($MNTS) announced last week that three of the five satellites it had carried failed to deploy from the third-party deployer it used for the mission, and are now presumed lost.
The GAO Calls on the FAA to Improve its Mishap Investigation Process
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the FAA should be taking the lead more often when things go awry in spaceflight.
The Space Industry’s Climate Impact: Part 1
Space technology benefits humanity every day, from scientific understanding to the nuts and bolts of supporting the systems that enable life as we know it, but some advocates worry regulators are not paying enough attention to the potential downsides of a bustling space economy.
All Massive Galaxies Emit Radio Waves, Study Finds
Ah, black holes—those distressing voids in space known for gobbling up everything they touch. Those side effects of the theory of relativity are now believed to be present at the core of every galaxy in the universe, and there’s still a lot we don’t know about them. One of those outstanding mysteries is radio wave…
NorthStar Raises $14.7M Series D
NorthStar Earth and Space, a startup building an in-situ space situational awareness (SSA) constellation out of its home base in Canada, announced yesterday that it clinched a CAD $20M ($14.7M) Series D round. Telesystem Space Inc., the Québec government, and the Luxembourg Future Fund participated.
Iran Launches Bio-Capsule to Space
Iran said it had successfully launched a bio-capsule to a height of 130 km as it sets a goal of sending humans to space by the end of the decade.
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.
SpaceX May Test Propellant Transfer on Next Starship Flight
SpaceX is advancing toward testing propellant transfer capability on its Starship Human Landing System (HLS), a significant milestone in its lunar transport architecture.
Report Considers Commercial Reinforcements For DoD
What would it look like for the Defense Department to be able to lean on the commercial space community in times of need? That’s the question examined by a new report from the RAND Corporation released last week.
Orbit Fab and Space Machines Company Partner on In-Orbit Servicing
Orbit Fab, a US-based company building in-space refueling infrastructure (i.e., orbital gas stations), announced this morning that it is teaming up with the Aussie-based Space Machines Company (SMC) to attach more efficient docking hardware to SMC’s orbital transfer vehicle, which is expected to launch next year.
