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A tale of two lunar landers: Blue Ghost makes successful landing but IM-2 Athena lands on its side
Firefly Blue Ghost 1, the lunar lander owned and operated by Firefly Aerospace, made a successful touchdown on the Moon on 2 March. Just four days later another commercial lunar lander, IM-2 Athena, made its own ill-fated attempt to land on Earth’s natural satellite....
The curious case of the Chinese KZ-1A rocket
A Kuiazhou 1A (KZ-1A) three-stage solid rocket was set to launch on 1 March at about 1001 GMT from Jiuquan, China. However, whether it made it off the pad intact was called into question after reports gained traction that KZ-1A suffered an explosive failure. An...
Starship blows up on IFT-8 test flight in consecutive failure
The Starship/Super Heavy suffered a serious launch failure during a suborbital flight test, for the second time in a row. Numerous observers in the Bahamas and at least one aircraft saw the Starship stage break up into fiery debris at nearly nine minutes after its...
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Seradata’s recommended space stories – January 2025
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we're keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don't have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of January (space orders can be found in another...
Satellite and launch orders in January 2025
Construction Orders STAR.VISION Aerospace links with universities to build two 5 kg lunar mini-robots to launch with Chang'e 8 in 2028 Thales Alenia Space won an ESA development deal for the Venus EnVision mission and, separately, it secured a US$900 million contract...
New Glenn reaches orbit on its debut flight
After almost a decade in development the maiden flight of New Glenn, NG-1, was a success. However, the icing on the cake was not to be. Blue Origin’s attempt to land the first stage on a fixed platform (called Jacklyn) in the Atlantic Ocean failed. Putting it simply,...
Seradata’s recommended space stories – December 2024
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we're keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don't have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of December (space orders can be found in another...
Satellite and launch orders in December 2024
Construction Orders As a follow-on to its Droid-01 testbed mission, Turion Space secured a US$32.6 million contract from the US military for three more space surveillance satellites Eutelsat ordered 100 partially upgraded OneWeb satellites from Airbus DS to...
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