🚀 Today, @rocketlabcorp.com successfully launched a new StriX SAR satellite for Synspective from New Zealand. 🛰️ “Owl New World” is Rocket Lab’s seventh launch for Synspective in a series of missions to deploy their Earth-imaging constellation. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/10...

Recently, Inversion unveiled Arc, an innovative space-based delivery vehicle. Arc enables rapid cargo drop-offs anywhere on Earth in under an hour from orbit while providing a platform for hypersonic testing. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/10...

🌕 VIPER will have a second life. Blue Origin has been selected to deliver the rover to the Moon aboard the second Blue Moon Mk1 lander in 2027. Previously, in July 2024, NASA canceled the VIPER mission due to cost and schedule pressure. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/09...

🤝 A top Airbus executive confirmed that the first agreements for the JV with Thales and Leonardo could be signed in 2025. 🛰️ The project aims to create a leading European satellite manufacturer capable of competing with major global players. Article: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/09...

🤝 Recently, Astrobotic signed a term sheet with Andøya Space to bring its reusable vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle, Xodiac, to Norway. The first European campaigns are expected to begin in 2026. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/09...

🚀 Today, @esa.int awarded Avio and Isar Aerospace the first five missions of the Flight Ticket Initiative, in collaboration with the European Commission. 🛰️The contracts cover in-orbit demonstration and validation missions (IOD/IOV). Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/08...

🚀 Today, @esa.int awarded Avio and Isar Aerospace the first five missions of the Flight Ticket Initiative, in collaboration with the European Commission. 🛰️The contracts cover in-orbit demonstration and validation missions (IOD/IOV). Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/08...

🇬🇧 Skyrora has become the first UK-based space company to secure a launch license for a commercial vehicle. 🚀 The CAA license authorizes up to 16 launches of the Skylark L sub-orbital rocket from Scotland’s SaxaVord spaceport. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/08...

Today, Gilmour Space attempted the first historical orbital launch from Australian soil. 🚀 The Eris rocket, however, fell back to the ground 14 seconds after liftoff due to multiple engine failures. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/07...

🚀 Last night, SpaceX launched Transporter-14 from Vandenberg, carrying 70 payloads, including Varda's W-4 and Mission Possible for The Exploration Company. 🛰️ The mission also delivered seven satellites from Argotec for the Italian IRIDE constellation. Article: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/06...

☀️ On Monday, @esa.int released the first image from a groundbreaking mission: the creation of an artificial total solar eclipse in space. 🛰️ The experiment was accomplished by Proba-3, a pair of satellites flying in precise formation around Earth. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/06...

🌕 ispace's second #Hakuto-R mission failed to safely land on the surface of the Moon. Initial analyses indicate that an instrumentation error prevented a nominal descent, resulting in a hard impact and the loss of communications with the lander. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/06...

🌕 Sierra Space has been awarded a contract by NASA to explore how its LIFE inflatable habitat could be repurposed for staging, transport, and storage on the Moon. The study contract falls under NASA’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix R initiative. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/05...

The FAA is requiring an investigation for the SpaceX Starship Flight 9 mishap. This only applies to the Ship loss, the Super Heavy vehicle loss was under a test objective cover

ULA says that the launch of Kuiper 2 Mission for Project Kuiper, the second batch of production satellites for Amazon, on an Atlas V 551 rocket is planned for June 13, 2025, pending range approval. Liftoff scheduled for 2:29 p.m. EDT with a 30-min window, from SLC-41, Florida

🚀 Following FAA's approval, SpaceX is preparing for the ninth #Starship flight test, the first to feature a flight-proven Super Heavy booster. Here’s a deep dive into what went wrong during Flight 8 and what to expect for the next launch from Starbase: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/05...

☀️ Reflect Orbital is raising funds to deploy a constellation of mirrors in orbit designed to illuminate specific areas on Earth. According to the company, it will be possible to request sunlight, initially at the intensity of a full moon, on demand. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/05...

🚀 This morning, @rocketlabusa.com successfully launched the third dedicated Electron mission for iQPS, delivering a SAR imaging satellite. 🛰️ The Japanese Earth imaging company aims to deploy a constellation of 36 satellites by 2027. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/05...

The FAA has just released the following statement about SpaceX's Starship Flight 9:

🚀 The USAF Research Laboratory has selected Rocket Lab to conduct a Neutron demonstration mission to test reentry and rapid cargo delivery capabilities. Neutron is undergoing hardware qualification testing in preparation for its maiden flight. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/05...

🌕 @interlune.bsky.social signed a historic agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Isotope Program to supply helium-3 harvested from the Moon, starting in 2029. The company recently unveiled a full-scale prototype of its lunar excavator. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/05...

🚀 A Firefly's Alpha rocket launch from Vandenberg suffered a mishap during stage separation. 🛰️ The #FLTA006 mission was carrying Lockheed Martin's LM 400 tech demo satellite. As of now, it is unclear whether the payload has reached orbit. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

🛰 ULA successfully launched the first batch of 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper commercial constellation. 🚀 The Atlas V 551 rocket lifted off from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral, carrying the satellites to low Earth orbit. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

🚀 Today, Arianespace successfully launched the #VV26 mission from French Guiana. 🌍 Vega-C carried ESA’s Earth Explorer #Biomass satellite, which will provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their role in Earth’s carbon cycle. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

🌍 Recently, the 55 countries of the African Union (AU) have come together to inaugurate the African Space Agency in Cairo, Egypt. 🤝 A newly signed Memorandum of Understanding with @esa.int is among the first steps toward joint space initiatives. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

🚀 Last night, SpaceX successfully launched the #Bandwagon3 rideshare mission with several payloads. The mission also carried ATMOS's PHOENIX 1 capsule, which will test its innovative inflatable atmospheric re-entry technology. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

🚀 Yesterday, Roscosmos successfully launched the Soyuz MS-27 mission aboard a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. 🧑‍🚀 The capsule carried to the ISS the cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

☄️ NASA updated the possible trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4, increasing the probability of a lunar impact in 2032 from 1.7% to 3.8%. #2024YR4 was first detected in December 2024, briefly raising concerns about a possible Earth impact. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

The US Space Force has awarded the NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 contract to SpaceX for $5.9B, United Launch Alliance for $5.3B, and Blue Origin for $2.3B: www.defense.gov/News/Contrac...

ULA's launch of Kuiper 1, the first production satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, with an Atlas V 551 rocket, is planned for April 9, 2025. The launch is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. EDT at the opening of a three-hour window, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fl

🚀 Last night, #SpaceX launched #Fram2, the first human spaceflight into polar orbit. 🌎 The planned three-to-five-day private mission will support polar and space environment studies, advance long-duration spaceflight and human health research. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/04...

The FAA closes the investigation on #Starship Flight 7:

🚀 Today in Norway, Isar Aerospace carried out the first launch of an orbital rocket from continental Europe. Despite the failure of the #Spectrum rocket shortly after liftoff, the company collected key flight data for the next missions. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

🤝 Airbus has been selected by @esa.int and @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social to design and build the lander platform for ExoMars mission. Set to launch in 2028, the lander will ensure the safe touchdown of the Rosalind Franklin rover on Mars in 2030. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

🚀 The US Space Force has selected @rocketlabusa.com and Stoke Space to participate in the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program. The IDIQ contract has a maximum value of $5.6 billion, with an ordering period until 2029. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

🪐 NASA's James #Webb captured, for the first time, auroral activity on Neptune and studied the composition of its ionosphere. 🔭 The discovery was made possible thanks to the combination of Webb's infrared data with Hubble's visible light images. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

🛰️🔥Today, @rocketlabusa.com successfully launched and deployed eight new satellites for OroraTech's wildfire detection and monitoring LEO constellation. 🚀 The 5th Rocket Lab mission of the year lifted off from New Zealand aboard an Electron rocket. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

🚨 @esa.int's Euclid mission released its first major batch of survey data, including a preview of Euclid’s deep fields. This data release consists of three large mosaics that contain 26 million galaxies, some as far as 10.5 billion light-years away. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

📸 First photo of the #Crew9 astronauts safe and sound inside Dragon. Credits: NASA/Keegan Barber

🧑‍🚀 After much controversy, SpaceX's #Crew9 mission safely splashed down off the coast of Florida. The Crew Dragon capsule is carrying NASA's astronauts Nich Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Willmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

Isar Aerospace announced today that the launch window for Spectrum's maiden flight will begin on March 20 🚀 www.isaraerospace.com/first-test-f...

🚀 Today, SpaceX successfully launched the #Crew10 mission toward the International Space Station (ISS), carrying two NASA astronauts, one JAXA astronaut, and one Cosmonaut. 🧑‍🚀 The docking at the Harmony module is expected on Saturday 15 at 23:30 UTC. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

🚀 Last night, #SpaceX successfully launched NASA's #SPHEREx mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The space telescope will provide an all-sky spectral survey, unlocking new insights about the universe’s initial inflation and the evolution of galaxies. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

🤝 Recently, SpaceData and ispace announced a partnership to develop a digital twin of the Moon. 🌕 The digital copy will help to improve simulations of robot and probe operations on the surface of our satellite, reducing costs and risks. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

Intuitive Machines confirmed today, in a press release, that #Athena landed 250 meters from the planned landing site in a crater. The lander is on its side, and the solar panels are not charging the batteries. The mission is thus concluded, and teams are analysing all collected data.

🚀 SpaceX launched the height #Starship flight test, and it hasn't gone as planned with the second consecutive losses of the upper stage early in the flight. However, the tower catch maneuver was successfully validated again. An analysis of what happened: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

Official SpaceX words: "The vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly and contact was lost. Our team immediately began coordination with safety officials to implement pre-planned contingency responses. We will review the data from today's flight test to better understand root cause"

Many videos of the #Starship debris atmospheric reentry are circulating on X.

Despite a nominal liftoff, descent, hot staging, and the third successful tower catch of the booster, the eight #Starship flight test ended with the second consecutive failure of the upper stage early in the flight.

The propellant load of Starship's Super Heavy booster and upper stage is underway ahead of today's planned Eight Flight Test. 🚀 The 60-minute launch window will open at 23:30 UTC. Credits: SpaceX