NASA has awarded a contract modification to SpaceX to further develop the company’s Starship human landing system to meet agency requirements for long-term human exploration of the Moon under Artemis. […]
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Canadensys Aerospace obtains a CAmillion$$ contract for 1st Canadian lunar rover
The Honorable François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced a $43 million contract to Canadensys Aerospace Corporation (Canadensys) and the firm’s industrial and academic partners to […]
NASA laser retroreflector array delivered to ESA for Lunar Pathfinder satellite navigation + Lunar Pathfinder info
A NASA retroreflector array has been delivered to the European Space Agency (ESA) that will allow the Lunar Pathfinder mission to be pinpointed by laser ranging stations back on Earth […]
Argotec’s ArgoMoon smallsat ready for deployment with the launch of the Artemis 1 mission on November 14th
ArgoMoon, the smallsat developed by Argotec for the Italian Space Agency, is ready on the upper stage of NASA‘s Space Launch System (SLS). In less than a week, ArgoMoon will […]
An Advanced Space CAPSTONE milestone: lunar orbit achieved
Advanced Space has announced that the big day has come and CAPSTONE is at the Moon — CAPSTONE just completed its initial insertion into the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). […]
Quantum Space and partners plan for superhighway mission between Earth and the Moon
Quantum Space (Quantum) today announced their first operational mission to cislunar space will launch in October 2024 and will include partners GEOST, LLC and Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT). Known as […]
Advanced Space offers a CAPSTONE mission update
Advanced Space LLC. has completed its fourth trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) for CAPSTONE — TCM-4 was the fourth of six planned maneuvers en route to the Moon, targeting the precise […]
Lockheed Martin receives an order from NASA for 3 additional Orion spacecraft
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is now under contract to deliver three Orion spacecraft to NASA for the agency’s Artemis VI-VIII missions, continuing the delivery of exploration vehicles to the agency […]
Astrobotic’s commercial LunaGrid power service for the Moon is announced
Astrobotic has announced LunaGrid, a commercial power service for the poles of the Moon — LunaGrid is a power generation and distribution service that will deliver power by the watt […]
Intuitive Machines’ merger with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. enables listing on Nasdaq
Intuitive Machines, LLC (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a space exploration, infrastructure, and services company founded in 2013, and Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. (“Inflection Point”), a special purpose acquisition company, […]