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China to attempt lunar far side sample return in 2024

HELSINKI — China will launch its Chang’e-6 lunar sample return mission next year in an attempt at a first-ever collection of material from the...

Hackaday Links: September 3, 2023

Right-to-repair has been a hot-button topic lately, with everyone from consumers to farmers pretty much united behind the idea that owning an item should...

Benchmark wins AFRL award to develop thrusters for ASCENT

SAN FRANCISCO – Benchmark Space Systems won a $2.81 million U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to continue development and testing of thrusters running...

RIKEN, Mitsui Bussan and NanoAvionics team up for NinjaSat X-ray Observatory

ADVERTISEMENT RIKEN, Mitsui Bussan and NanoAvionics team up for NinjaSat X-ray Observatory by Staff Writers Logan UT (SPX) Aug 09, 2023 RIKEN, Japan's largest comprehensive...

NASA’s final two TROPICS CubeSats launched by Rocket Lab

The last two spacecraft in a four-satellite constellation of tropical cyclone research platforms took off late Thursday from New Zealand on a Rocket Lab...

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight CubeSat mission ends before entering orbit around moon

NASA’s small Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, sent to the moon last year to search for water ice deposits at the lunar south pole, will not...

Astra, Momentus face cash crunch

WASHINGTON — Two startups that went public through SPAC mergers say they are pressing ahead with plans despite warnings that they are running perilously...

NASA ends Lunar Flashlight mission because of thruster problems

WASHINGTON — NASA has ended the mission of a cubesat intended to go into orbit around the moon but which was unable to do...

Twin TROPICS satellites set to be lofted into orbit

Rocket Lab’s launch of NASA’s second pair of TROPICS hurricane research satellites, reassigned from Astra following a launch failure last year, has been rescheduled...

Artemis 1 cubesat nearing end of mission

WASHINGTON — A cubesat launched as a secondary payload on Artemis 1 may end its operations at the end of the month unless it...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy hits bullseye with ascent to near-geosynchronous orbit

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket thundered into the sky over Florida’s Space Coast Sunday night and deployed a sophisticated internet satellite for Viasat into...

SpaceX launches second pair of O3b mPower satellites

TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched a second pair of O3b mPower satellites April 28 for SES, which is now just one launch away from...

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