Fresh off its highly successful NG-2 flight, which launched the ESCAPADE Mars probes and featured a successful booster landing, Blue Origin unveiled the Blue Moon Mk1 robotic lander due to fly in 2026, possibly on New Glenn’s next flight. In addition, the company announced its future New Glenn 9×4 rocket while giving the current New Glenn the 7×2 designation. What’s more, Blue Origin also shared details about its Blue Ring tug and satellite bus, as well as revealing a new deployable aerobrake to enable future Mars missions.
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Amid numerous questions about whether SpaceX can have the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of…
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Impulse Space, the innovative startup founded by SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller, has unveiled plans for…
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Located around Saturn is the icy moon Enceladus — one of the most interesting and…
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While Earth and Mars are known for their intense surface quakes, other terrestrial bodies in…
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Scheduled to launch in February 2026, the Artemis II Orion capsule and Space Launch System…
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Firefly advances production of Eclipse and Blue Ghost, announces Ocula imaging service
by Aaron McCreaFirefly Aerospace is continuing to make good progress toward the debut of the company’s next-generation…
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Just over two years after the Japanese company ispace attempted but failed to land its…
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In July 2028, NASA’s next New Frontiers program mission, Dragonfly, will launch to Saturn atop…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave a talk to employees inside the Starfactory, laying out the…
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By combining data from the Keck II telescope and the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space…
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Blue Ghost successfully starts lunar surface mission while IM-2 lands sideways
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is now seeing more results from the work…
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SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the…
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Launch Roundup: Starship, Ariane 6 and telescope missions delayed, lunar lander flies
by Martin SmithSeveral significant missions were scheduled for this week, including the third lunar lander to launch…
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NASA’s CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon
As NASA focuses on returning humans to the Moon with Artemis, commercial providers are gearing…
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SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission,…
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Launch Roundup: New Glenn and Starship headline a week dominated by SpaceX missions
by John SharpSpaceX dominated this week’s launch manifest with two Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight…
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Space science in 2024: Moon missions, Martian milestones, astrophysics discoveries, and more
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
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China Roundup: Tianlong-3 static fire anomaly, Chang’e 6 sample return, and next-generation rockets
by Adrian BeilThroughout the last few weeks, several events in Chinese spaceflight have created international headlines. After…
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China’s Chang’e 6 landed on and sampled the far side of the Moon while the…