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Blue Origin sticks first New Glenn rocket landing and launches NASA spacecraft

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt — making it the second company to perform such a feat, following Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It’s an accomplishment that will help the new rocket system become an option to … Read more

Charter Space brings fintech to spacecraft insurance and is showing off its stuff at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

When Yuk Chi Chan set out to build Charter Space in late 2021, it was after a long stretch of pain. As a mission manager at a satellite bus startup, he coordinated the company’s first demonstration mission — and he had to do it all with critical data scattered across Microsoft Excel. In addition to … Read more

SOSV bets plasma will change everything from semiconductors to spacecraft

Sometimes a tool — like a hammer — comes along and everything starts looking like a nail. But other times, new tools end up being more than a simple blunt-force object. The investors at SOSV are betting that plasma will become a nuanced implement capable of everything from enabling fusion power to changing the way … Read more

A European Startup’s Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It’s Lost at Sea

A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week with a test flight that saw its Mission Possible vehicle power up and fly successfully in orbit before making a controlled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. However, after encountering an “issue,” the Exploration Company lost contact … Read more

This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons

The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo’oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid. The image was captured by a camera onboard the probe, which is currently more than 3 million kilometers from Earth, and shows one of its wings with its solar panels deployed. It … Read more

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for its second stop at the main belt, approaching a mysterious space rock to practice for the main event. … Read more

A second Intuitive Machines spacecraft just landed on the moon — and probably tipped over

Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ever. Unfortunately, much like that first attempt, it seems the company’s spacecraft may have tipped on its side. The lunar lander, called Athena, touched down on the moon’s surface at around 12:30 p.m. ET … Read more

Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft

Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has … Read more

Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of observations taken over a 10-year space. Between July 24, 2014 and today, Gaia took more than three trillion observations of two billion stars and other objects in our galaxy. The … Read more

Spacecraft Captures Spectacularly Detailed Images of Mercury’s Hidden Surface

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden in the shadows. BepiColombo, consisting of two conjoined spacecraft, flew past Mercury for the sixth and final time on Wednesday, using the planet’s gravitational pull to adjust its … Read more

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