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Firefly Aerospace aces Moon landing on first attempt
Firefly Aerospace’s team in its mission operations center celebrates the successful touchdown of its first Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Image: Firefly Aerospace via livestream Hugs, high-fives and cheers were shared in Firefly Aerospace’s mission control room in the predawn hours on Sunday. Down the road, dozens more…
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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
A SpaceX rocket ascends from Space Launch Complex 40 on the Starlink 12-20 mission on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Image: Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket of the month and its first Starlink flight since reportedly reaching 5 million subscribers for the satellite internet service on Sunday night. Liftoff of the Starlink…
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As it happened: Firefly Aerospace completes first Moon landing with Blue Ghost
Firefly Aerospace accomplished its first attempt at landing on the Moon during the early morning hours of Sunday, March 2. Its robotic Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the lunar surface at approximately 3:34 a.m. EST (0834 UTC). Blog updates posted as they happened during the landing event.
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SpaceX readies a redo of last month’s ill-fated Starship test flight
SpaceX plans to launch the eighth full-scale test flight of its enormous Starship rocket as soon as Monday after receiving regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The test flight will be a repeat of what SpaceX hoped to achieve on the previous Starship launch in January, when the rocket broke apart and showered debris…
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Phison and Lonestar Partner to Launch First Lunar Data Center Hardware
Phison Electronics, a leading innovator in NAND flash technologies has partnered with Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., a leader in lunar infrastructure and Resiliency as a Service (RaaS), to support successful lunar mission launch, Lonestar’s Freedom Mission. The Freedom payload utilizes SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and is set to reach the lunar surface on March 4th,…
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Maxar Space Systems Delivers Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Satellite to L3Harris
Maxar Space Systems, leading satellite manufacturer and provider of advanced solutions for space exploration and operations, announced it has delivered the first of 16 spacecraft buses to L3Harris Technologies to support the Space Development Agency (SDA)’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Leveraging their Maxar 300 platform, Maxar Space Systems designed and developed this purpose-built bus…
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Varda’s Second Capsule Successfully Lands in Australia
Varda Space Industries successfully landed its second reentry capsule, W-2, and completed the company’s second mission, the company announced on Feb. 28. After six weeks in orbit, W-2 touched down at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia at 6:32 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday morning. W-2 carried payloads from multiple partners, including a spectrometer…
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Globalstar to Launch Two-Way Satellite IoT Solution
Globalstar, a next-generation telecommunications infrastructure and technology provider, announced the launch of a two-way satellite IoT solution via its LEO constellation. This new connectivity solution offers a unique low-power satellite communication platform. It enables assured delivery, low-latency messaging, and reliable, globally available command and control for a wide variety of applications, such as fleet tracking,…
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Telesat Contracts Intellian for Flat Panel User Terminals for Lightspeed
Telesat awarded Intellian a contract to design and manufacture Ka-band flat panel user terminals for the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, Telesat announced on Feb. 27. The contract aims to deliver high-speed connectivity for various markets, including fixed enterprise applications, wireless backhaul, government, land mobility, and maritime sectors. Intellian will design and manufacture Ka-band LEO…