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Anduril in Talks for Funding Round That Could Value It Near $100 Billion
The talks come as Anduril has posted booming military sales and drawn investor enthusiasm around its suite of drones, software and missiles amid the U.S. conflict with Iran. Just two months ago, the company doubled its valuation to $61 billion in a $5 billion funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The funding…
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Super Heavy-Starship rocket chalks up mostly successful test flight
SpaceX’s Super Heavy-Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, blasts off on the program’s 13th test flight in another critical milestone for Elon Musk’s rocket company. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.SpaceX launched it’s 13th Super Heavy-Starship rocket Friday, with the giant booster chalking up an on-target but “hard” splashdown off the Texas Gulf Coast while the…
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Alphabet Reveals $94.1 Billion SpaceX Stake Following Historic IPO
The disclosure comes just weeks after SpaceX completed its historic public offering. SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX on June 12th after pricing its IPO at $135 per share. The offering ultimately raised approximately $85.7 billion after underwriters exercised their full allotment, making it one of the largest public listings ever completed.…
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Sun Holds 55 Percent More Silver Than Earlier Estimates, Uppsala Study Finds
The Sun is made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with heavier elements such as carbon, iron, and silver accounting for only 1.5 percent of its mass. Despite these small quantities, these elements are valuable to astronomers because they preserve clues about the chemical development of the cosmos. Earlier estimates of the Sun’s silver content…
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Critical NASA Deep Space ground station in Spain evacuated due to wildfires
In a historic first, all six radio frequency antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex – part of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) – carried out a test to receive data from the agency’s Voyager 1 spacecraft at the same time on April 20, 2024. Known as “arraying,” combining the receiving power of several…
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Juno Measures Europa’s Ice Shell at 29 Kilometers, Deepening the Case for a Thick Crust
Juno was built primarily to investigate Jupiter, not to map Europa’s interior. Its Microwave Radiometer, or MWR, was designed to look beneath Jupiter’s clouds by measuring microwave emission at six frequencies. On 29 September 2022, the spacecraft passed within about 360 kilometers of Europa and collected measurements across roughly half of the moon’s surface. The…
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Blue Origin to conduct New Glenn second stage hot fires on Stennis B-2 stand
NASA and Blue Origin have finalized plans to hot-fire test the second stage of the New Glenn rocket on the B-2 position of the Thad Cochran Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. An annex to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement, signed earlier this month, will see testing begin as early as this fall,…
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Spire Global and SATE Collaborate on ESA-Backed AI Program for Autonomous Constellations
Spire Global, a leading global provider of satellite data, analytics and intelligence, announced a partnership with SATE to develop and validate an artificial intelligence system for real-time satellite health monitoring, anomaly diagnosis, and predictive failure analysis through STRAIDE, an 18-month research and development program funded through subscriptions to ESA by the Italian Space Agency (ASI)…
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NASA to Support New Glenn Hot Fire Testing at Stennis Space Center
NASA and Blue Origin have agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the New Glenn rocket at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to advance work on the Artemis program. NASA announced Friday the agreement is an annex to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed earlier this month. Blue Origin will conduct hot…
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This is the world’s most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about
A spacecraft fitted with two flexible robotic arms is on the way to geosynchronous orbit after launching earlier this week on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off a planned decade-long mission to open new frontiers in satellite servicing. The Mission Robotic Vehicle, owned and built by Northrop Grumman, rocketed into orbit from Cape Canaveral…