private spaceflight
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It’s a Race Against Time to Recover Parts of Doomed Moon Landing Mission
Astrobotic’s Peregrine spacecraft has mere hours of power left.
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The Moon Is About to Become a Graveyard
An upcoming launch will usher in a new era of commercial payloads being dropped off to deep space destinations like the Moon. As we gain greater access to space, things are going to start getting weird. Astrobotic’s long-awaited Peregrine lunar lander blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida this morning, carrying government and commercial payloads to…
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NASA-Funded Space Ventures Set for Back-to-Back Moon Landings in Early 2024
Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are all set with their Moon landers. Now they just need their rockets prepped and the launch windows to swing open. But once underway, these NASA-funded missions, slated for early 2024, will chart a new course for the future of private space exploration. On Tuesday, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic announced that its Peregrine…
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Launch of Miura 1 Rocket Signals Europe’s Overdue Leap Into Commercial Spaceflight
Private Spanish firm PLD Space launched its Miura 1 rocket this past Friday on a suborbital flight that lasted for five minutes, marking a significant milestone for Europe’s nascent spaceflight industry. PLD Space launched its reusable Miura 1 rocket on Friday, October 6 at 8:19 p.m. ET. The rocket took off from the El Arenosillo…