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- Triumphs and Troubles: This Week at the Moon Space Scout · 25 Aug 2023 India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully completed its seven and a half week journey to the lunar surface. Now, after four years of planning and hard work, Chandrayaan-3 can begin its two week science mission at the lu...
- SpaceX’s Booster 9 performs 2nd static fire Teslarati · 25 Aug 2023 Booster 9 performed what looked like a nominal static fire test as SpaceX moved closer to the 2nd integrated test flight. After...
- Sedaro wins Space Force contract to develop spacecraft digital twins SpaceNews · 25 Aug 2023 Sedaro, a startup that develops digital engineering software, won a Space Force contract to demonstrate the use of digital twins to design spacecraft.
- POLARIS Spaceplanes Begins Testing its MIRA-Light Vehicle European Spaceflight · 25 Aug 2023 Bremen-based startup POLARIS Spaceplanes announced that it had begun testing its MIRA-Light demonstrator. MIRA-Light measures 2.5 metres in length. It is a subscale version of the company’s MIRA vehicle which POLARIS exp...
- Rideshare industry adapting to a changing smallsat market SpaceNews · 25 Aug 2023 More companies than ever are offering to arrange launches and provide “last-mile” services. However, alternatives to SpaceX are hard to come by as other launchers struggle through development delays.
- Big constellations no longer necessarily mean small satellites SpaceNews · 25 Aug 2023 Starlink and OneWeb are plotting much larger satellites for their second generations as the total mass of objects in space reaches new heights. Smallsat makers are also getting in on the action, offering smaller constell...
- Defense Innovation Unit to sponsor a rapid response space mission SpaceNews · 25 Aug 2023 The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking industry bids for a “tactically responsive space” mission where a launch provider would get only 24 hours’ notice to get a payload off the ground.
- Can space investment become cool again? SpaceNews · 25 Aug 2023 The once high-flying space finance sector has come crashing back to Earth.
- European Union nations join ASAT testing ban SpaceNews · 24 Aug 2023 Ahead of a final meeting of a United Nations working group on reducing space threats, members states of the European Union, but not the E.U. itself, have pledged not to conduct destructive direct-ascent anti-satellite te...
- RocketLab Flys Recovered Electron Engine For First Time The Launch Pad · 24 Aug 2023 Rocket Lab has achieved a significant milestone in the effort to make Electron reusable, for the first time the company has flown an engine that had previously flown before and was recovered from the ocean.
- Space Force to seek industry ideas for rapid deployment of satellites SpaceNews · 24 Aug 2023 The U.S. Space Force is kicking off a new initiative focused on the rapid deployment of satellites during conflicts or emergencies.
- Viasat reports second satellite malfunction in a matter of weeks CNBC · 24 Aug 2023 A second Viasat communications satellite is malfunctioning in orbit, this time from the fleet of recently acquired U.K.-based Inmarsat, the company said on Thursday.
- North Korea Fails To Launch Spy Satellite Again The Launch Pad · 24 Aug 2023 North Korea has attempted to to launch a spy satellite again, but the mission ended in failure due to a critical "error in the emergency blasting system" during the third-stage flight, according to a statement from the n...
- Justice Department sues SpaceX over hiring practices SpaceNews · 24 Aug 2023 The U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against SpaceX, alleging the company discriminated against asylum seekers and refugees in hiring.
- SpaceX rolls Booster 9 back to the Launch Pad for more testing Teslarati · 24 Aug 2023 Following a short stay at the production site, Booster 9 has made its way back to the Orbital Launch Mount for additional...
- NASA, SpaceX conducts Crew-7 mission to ISS NASASpaceflight · 24 Aug 2023 NASA launched its next astronaut rotation, Crew-7, to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, docking the following day. The four astronauts launched from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Ce...
- Rogers Bears Down on USSPACECOM Decision SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Aug 2023 Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) is taking more steps to challenge President Biden’s decision to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado instead of moving it to Alabama as promised by
- NASA, Forest Service to Share Moon Tree Seedlings, Promote STEM NASA · 24 Aug 2023 Education and community organizations can apply to receive a living piece of spaceflight history to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a seedling grown from a tree seed that flew around the Moon o...
- Rocket Lab launches 40th mission, first re-flown Rutherford engine Teslarati · 24 Aug 2023 Rocket Lab’s ‘We Love the Nightlife’ mission lifted off at 11:45 a.m. NZST (23:45 UTC), bringing the Acadia satellite to orbit and...
- NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search NASA · 24 Aug 2023 NASA is working with its international partners to study the ancient Earth as it relates to Mars
- The re-flight of a Rutherford engine demonstrates rocket reuse is here to stay Ars Technica · 24 Aug 2023 "The data is in, perfect performance from the reused engine."
- Dragon Tamers Rise – Crew-7 Ready for Flight Space Scout · 24 Aug 2023 Launching at 3:27 AM Eastern Time August 26th, Crew-7 will continue to inspire those on Earth, and conduct important research that will take us higher, further and faster than ever before.
- ESA’s Solar Orbiter May Have Discovered the Source of Solar Wind European Spaceflight · 24 Aug 2023 The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered a number of tiny jets of material escaping from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. These jets may be the long-sought-after source of solar wind. Work on the So...
- DOJ sues SpaceX, alleging hiring discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers CNBC · 24 Aug 2023 The U.S. Department of Justice sued SpaceX on Thursday, alleging Elon Musk’s space company discriminated against refugees and asylum seekers in its hiring practices.
- DOJ sues SpaceX alleging hiring discrimination against refugees and asylum recipients CNBC · 24 Aug 2023 The U.S. Department of Justice sued SpaceX on Thursday, alleging Elon Musk’s space company discriminated in its hiring practices against refugees and people granted asylum in the U.S.
- NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument NASA · 24 Aug 2023 On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about major air pollutants over North America.
- Investing in Space: The nascent market for tracking and removing debris from orbit CNBC · 24 Aug 2023 It’s a sad irony, but an irony nonetheless, that this week the European Space Agency announced that a piece of space debris — left in orbit by a 2013 launch of Arianespace’s Vega rocket and the target of a removal missio...
- NASA prepares for space research decadal survey SpaceNews · 24 Aug 2023 NASA is preparing for the release of a new decadal survey for space research that the agency hopes will provide guidance on research to pursue on the International Space Station and how to transition that to commercial s...
- North Korea’s spy satellite launch fails again SpaceNews · 24 Aug 2023 North Korea said Aug. 24 its second attempt to launch a spy satellite ended in failure due to an “error in the emergency blasting system” during the third-stage flight.
- Rocket Lab reuses engine on Electron launch SpaceNews · 24 Aug 2023 Rocket Lab successfully reflew an engine on an Electron launch Aug. 23 as the company moves a step closer to reusing the entire rocket booster.
- India’s moon landing made history on a relatively small budget CNBC · 23 Aug 2023 The list is grim reading: Stuck, failed, missed, failed, failed, stuck, failed, crashed, missed, crashed, crashed.
- Booster 9 conducts pre-flight static fire test NASASpaceflight · 23 Aug 2023 SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster 9 prototype has completed its pre-launch static fire test. This follows roughly two weeks after its first static fire attempt that ended prematurely at only half the expected duration. Work c...
- SAB Orbital Vehicle Could Work in Concert With Space Rider European Spaceflight · 23 Aug 2023 Italian-based space transportation company SAB Launch Services is studying ways that its IOSHEX orbital vehicle could work in concert with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Rider vehicle. Space Rider is an ESA-led...
- Space imagery startup HEO raises $8 million SpaceNews · 23 Aug 2023 Australian startup HEO, which uses space-based sensors to inspect and image objects in orbit, announced Aug. 23 it has completed an $8 million Series A funding round.
- Chandrayaan-3 is a story of ISRO’s perseverance and triumph SpaceNews · 23 Aug 2023 The success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission marks a watershed moment, as it becomes the first spacecraft to land on the moon's south pole — a region containing water ice and valuable minerals. The implication of this pionee...
- H3, Japan’s Bid for Space Access in a Competitive World Space Scout · 23 Aug 2023 On the 7th of March, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the inaugural mission of their H3 rocket. Space Scout's Scarlet Dominik takes a deep dive into the vehicle's development.
- Modi: “India is on the Moon” SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Aug 2023 India became just the fourth country to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon today. Chandrayaan-3’s soft-landing marked the first success since 2019 in six tries by three space agencies,
- India successfully lands Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon Teslarati · 23 Aug 2023 India becomes the 4th country to successfully make a soft touchdown on the Moon and the first to land in the Southern...
- Spaced Ventures’ first exit: Sidus Space purchase of Exo-Space SpaceNews · 23 Aug 2023 Sidus Space’s acquisition of Exo-Space marks an important milestone for crowdfunding platform Spaced Ventures -- its first exit.
- Chandrayaan-3: India becomes fourth country to land on the moon SpaceNews · 23 Aug 2023 India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully touched down on the moon Wednesday, making the country only the fourth to achieve the feat.