Opinion: Missed shots at the moon are still scores for commercial space companies
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of ...
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SpaceX Starship Explodes: Disruption, Debris, and Determination
Recent science news highlights the explosion of SpaceX's Starship during a test flight, disrupting 240 flights. Additionally, ...
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Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.
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Private Intuitive Machines moon lander declared dead after falling on its side in crater at the lunar south pole
After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its ...
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IM-2 lands on the Moon but its status is uncertain
After a shaky Moon landing last year, Intuitive Machines is working to determine if this mission will meet a similar fate.
Intuitive Machines ends 2nd moon mission after lander topples over in crater - but there are positives ahead
Intuitive Machines Inc. has ended is second moon-landing mission after less than 24 hours on the lunar surface, the space-exploration company announced Friday, confirming that its Athena lander had ...
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Blue Ghost successfully starts lunar surface mission while...
Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...
Elon Musk's Starship blew up again — and our prospects of mining the moon hang in the balance
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...
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Moon mission goes sideways: Private lunar lander declared dead after botched landing
A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is ...
Lunar data center intact despite lunar lander's botched landing, St. Pete company says
St. Petersburg-based space startup Lonestar Data Holdings says its lunar data center is the only surviving payload after a ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena space craft declared dead after landing sideways in a crater on the moon
A privately owned robotic lander named Athena is no longer working after it landed sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole on Thursday afternoon. Officials at the Houston-based Intuitive ...