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A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location
A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon’s surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions could mine and harvest lunar resources. Ground teams at ispace’s mission control center in Tokyo lost contact with the Resilience lunar lander moments before it was…
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What would happen if Trump retaliated against Musk’s companies?
A remarkable schoolyard brawl erupted online Thursday between President Donald Trump and his former “First Buddy” Elon Musk during which the pair traded insults and barbs. The war of words reached a crescendo during the afternoon when Trump threatened Musk’s federal contracts. “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of…
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Rocket Report: SpaceX’s 500th Falcon launch; why did UK’s Reaction Engines fail?
Welcome to Edition 7.47 of the Rocket Report! Let’s hope not, but the quarrel between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk may be remembered as “Black Thursday” for the US space program. A simmering disagreement over Trump’s signature “One Big Beautiful Bill” coursing its way through Congress erupted into public view, with two of the…
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SpaceX launches SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket on June 7, 2025 at 12:54 a.m. EDT (0454 UTC) in support of the SXM-10 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update June 7, 1:47 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the SXM-10 satellite. SpaceX launched its first customer…
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ispace’s Resilience lander crash lands on the Moon
The ispace Resilience lunar lander is pictured after it was integrated into the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle adapter about a week ahead of its launch on Jan. 15, 2025. Image: SpaceX via ispace In a horrible case of deja vu, Japan-based company ispace got to the finish line with its robotic lunar lander, but…
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Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science
Negotiations over the US federal budget for fiscal year 2026 are in the beginning stages, but when it comes to space, the fault lines are already solidifying in the Senate. The Trump White House released its budget request last Friday, and this included detailed information about its plans for NASA. On Thursday, just days later,…
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Report: Starlink Receives Key Regulatory Approval in India as Elon Musk Feuds with President Trump
SpaceX scored a major victory for its Starlink constellation business by winning a long sought-after license from India’s Department of Telecommunications to launch commercial operations in the country, according to a report published Friday by Reuters. Starlink now needs to secure a license from The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center and pass security…
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Report: Starlink Receives Key Regulatory Approval in India as Elon Musk Feuds with President Trump
SpaceX scored a major victory for its Starlink constellation business by winning a long sought-after license from India’s Department of Telecommunications to launch commercial operations in the country, according to a report published Friday by Reuters. Starlink now needs to secure a license from The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center and pass security…
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SES Hires New CFO Lisa Pataki
Global satellite operator SES hired former Aerojet Rocketdyne executive Elisabeth (Lisa) Pataki as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the company announced June 6th. She will take over for Sandeep Jalan on June 16th. Jalan had been SES’s CFO since May 2020. Pataki joins SES as it is working to close its merger with another global…
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Canada’s Maritime Launch Services Wins Multimillion-Dollar Investment Tax Credit for Spaceport Nova Scotia
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia will issue a Capital Investment Tax Credit (CITC) worth approximately $10.5 million (Canadian Dollars) to Maritime Launch Services, a Canadian space company that has been working to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia. Maritime Launch Services will apply the tax credit to construction costs for a dedicated launch pad…