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SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
SpaceX shares dropped on Wednesday after Elon Musk’s plans for blockbuster spending to position his AI and rocket company as a data center developer spooked investors. SpaceX surpassed analysts’ expectations in Tuesday’s debut earnings report, posting quarterly revenues of $7.8 billion, well above analysts’ estimates of $6.82 billion and up 92 percent from a year…
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Carries Water With Heavy-Hydrogen Ratio 40 Times Earth’s
On 1 July 2025, the ATLAS robotic sky survey in Rio Hurtado, Chile, flagged a faint point of light moving in a way nothing native to our solar system moves. Archived images later traced it back to 14 June 2025. Follow-up observations confirmed the object, named 3I/ATLAS, as the third comet ever confirmed to have…
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SpaceX Recovers Intact Ship 40 From Indian Ocean as Ship 41 Readies for Engine Testing
Ship 40 performed a controlled flip and landing burn, igniting its engines, flipping vertically, swinging into position, down-selecting to two engines, and soft-landing in the water. In previous flights the toppling after splashdown destroyed the vehicle. This time Ship 40 remained intact, allowing SpaceX drone cameras to capture clear, close-up views of the thermal protection…
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NASA’s PUNCH Nails Solar Storm Arrival to Within 30 Minutes in Proof-of-Concept Test
Solar storms are caused by coronal mass ejections, huge explosions of material off the Sun. Forecasting when these ejections reach Earth is central to mitigating their impacts on power grids, satellites, and astronauts. Until recently, coronal mass ejections could not be tracked continuously for much of their journey, and could only be observed as they…
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Intuitive Machines Wins L3Harris Selection for 18 Missile Tracking Spacecraft
The Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3, or AMDT3, supports the Golden Dome for America’s space-based capabilities. The mission is aimed at advancing homeland defense, deterrence, and ensuring U.S. space operations remain resilient and responsive. Intuitive Machines, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker LUNR, will supply the spacecraft platforms that enable L3Harris’ missile defense solutions…
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AST SpaceMobile Activates Direct-to-Cell Service in Japan With Rakuten
The operational milestone fulfills international regulatory conditions under AST SpaceMobile’s operating license. The service uses the company’s phased-array BlueBird satellite constellation in Low Earth Orbit, engineered to connect directly to unmodified 4G and 5G smartphones through large deployable aperture arrays that communicate across commercial cellular spectrum without requiring specialized hardware or external antenna adapters on…
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Four Commercial Landers Race Toward 2028 Cargo Deliveries for NASA’s Moon Base
Phase I of the Moon Base architecture plan runs from now through 2029 and includes more than twenty robotic landings, each designed to incrementally advance system capabilities and validate components for missions that follow. Before astronauts arrive, robotic missions will deploy scientific instruments to characterize the lunar environment, test new technologies, and begin assembling infrastructure…
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PUNCH Mission Pins Solar Storm Arrival to Within 30 Minutes in First Test
Solar storms are caused by coronal mass ejections, huge explosions of material off the Sun. Predicting when these ejections reach Earth is central to limiting their effects on power grids, satellites, and astronauts. Until recently, coronal mass ejections could not be tracked continuously across much of their journey. Before PUNCH, they could only be observed…
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Varda Space Industries Appoints Former Pfizer R&D Chief Mikael Dolsten to Board
Varda Space Industries has announced the appointment of pharmaceutical leader Mikael Dolsten to its board of directors. Dolsten has been one of biopharma’s senior R&D leaders, having served for 16 years as Chief Scientific Officer and President of Pfizer R&D, where he oversaw the approval of more than 36 medicines and vaccines and advanced more…
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Launch Preview: Starlink, AST SpaceMobile, and Chinese missions fill launch manifest
The first full week of August is shaping up to be another busy period for the global launch industry, with six missions scheduled from Asia and the United States. SpaceX has three Falcon 9 missions lined up this week: two Starlink missions and one mission for the AST BlueBird constellation. Internationally, China is expected to…