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Japan’s First Moon Lander Equipped with Rad-Hard ICs from Renesas Touches Down
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that its radiation-hardened ICs were onboard the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft that successfully touched down on the Moon’s low latitude area on January 20, Japan Standard Time. Operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, SLIM launched onboard an H-IIA rocket from…
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NASA Announces Media Invitation for First Intuitive Machines and SpaceX Moon Launch
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, media accreditation is open for Intuitive Machines’ first robotic flight to the Moon’s surface. The robotic deliveries will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all. The Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander carrying NASA science and commercial…
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NASA urged Astrobotic not to send its hamstrung spacecraft toward the Moon
Astrobotic knew its first space mission would be rife with risks. After all, the company’s Peregrine spacecraft would attempt something never done before—landing a commercial spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. The most hazardous part of the mission, actually landing on the Moon, would happen more than a month after Peregrine’s launch. But the…
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Voyager Space Appoints Marshall Smith as CTO
Voyager Space appoints Marshall Smith as CTO to lead technical strategy and to guide the Starlab team through the design, development, and operations of the commercial space station. Smith previously served as the company’s vice president of Exploration. Smith has a deep background in space missions and spent 37 years at NASA where led systems…
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Albedo Raises $35M With Booz Allen Investment
Albedo raised a $35 million Series A-1 financing round announced on Tuesday, to launch the company’s first operational satellite to collect ultra-high resolution imagery. These funds bring Albedo’s total funding to $97 million. Standard Investments led the round and new investors Booz Allen Ventures, Cubit Capital, and Bill Perkins joined the round as well. The…
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Axiom Space Commemorates Ax-3 Crew’s Arrival at the International Space Station
Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), the first all-European commercial astronaut mission to the International Space Station, reached its destination and will begin its planned 14-day mission on the orbiting laboratory. After seamlessly docking to the ISS, the Ax-3 crewmembers, Commander Michael López-Alegría of the U.S. and Spain, Pilot Walter Villadei of the Italian Air…
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Blue Origin Selects Redwire as Key Supplier for Blue Ring Space Mobility Platform
Redwire Corporation, one of the leaders in space infrastructure for the next-generation space economy, announced that it has been awarded a contract to develop and deliver four Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) wings, along with multiple Argus cameras and Low Voltage Distribution Units (LVDUs) for Blue Origin’s multi-orbit space mobility platform, Blue Ring. The ROSA wings…
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Daily Telescope: Looking up to brilliant skies Down Under
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a…
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Sierra Space Progresses with its Revolutionary Commercial Space Station Technology
Sierra Space, one of the leading commercial space companies building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully designing, manufacturing, assembling, and testing its first full-scale, expandable space station structure, alongside exclusive softgoods technology partner ILC Dover. By the Numbers: Company’s first stress test of a full-size,…
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Es’hailSat Signs Partnership Deal with Total Media Cast
Es’hailSat is to partner with Total Media Cast (TMC) to be able to provide digital satellite news gathering services (DSNG) and outdoor broadcast van (OBVAN) services in Qatar and across Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The two companies will work together in the leasing of the DSNG vehicle and equipment to end customers, with…