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🚨 @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...

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🧑‍🚀 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...

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

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🚀 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...

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🚀 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...

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🤝 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...

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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.

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🚀 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...

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

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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.

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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

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🌕 Today, Intuitive Machines reached the Moon for the second time, however, something went wrong during landing. The status of #Athena is unclear. The Nova-C lander was expected to softly land near the Moon's south pole with several NASA payloads. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

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Ariane 6 launch captured from Rafale aircrafts.😍 Cedit: French air force

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🚀 Today Arianespace launched the first Ariane 6 commercial mission carrying the CSO-3 Earth Observation satellite for French government. 🛰️The Composante Spatiale Optique constellation provides high-quality optical imagery for France's defense needs. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

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🛰 Recently, Rocket Lab unveiled Flatellite, a scalable and stackable satellite for large constellations. The new solution completes a set of various products developed by Rocket Lab and is designed to be integrated aboard the future Neutron rocket. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

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🛰️ Yesterday, NASA's Europa Clipper probe conducted a gravity assist around Mars, reaching a minimum distance of 884 kilometers from the Red Planet’s surface. During the close flyby, the spacecraft tested some of its important scientific instruments. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

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🌕 This morning, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 softly touched down on the surface of the #Moon, carrying 10 scientific payloads for #NASA. On its first attempt, Firefly became the first company to complete a fully successful lunar landing. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/03...

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From the FAA: "After completing the required and comprehensive safety review, the FAA determined the SpaceX Starship vehicle can return to flight operations while the investigation into the Jan. 16 Starship Flight 7 mishap remains open. The FAA is overseeing the SpaceX-led investigation."

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🚀 Rocket Lab unveiled the future Neutron's ocean landing platform, converted from a barge, set to enter service in 2026. 📈 The announcement is part of the 2024 financial results update, which highlights a year of significant growth for the company. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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📸 Stunning photo of Earth from the Athena lunar lander on its way to the Moon. Behind is visible the Falcon 9 upper stage and some payloads deployed. Intuitive Machines is targeting a lunar landing opportunity on March 6.

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Katy Perry is flying on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-31 Mission. She joins Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez.

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🚀 Last night, #SpaceX successfully launched Intuitive Machines' second mission towards the Moon. 🌕 The Nova-C lander is carrying a bunch of important payloads, including the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1), as part of NASA's CLPS. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🔍 The investigation into #Starship Flight 7, revealed a series of issues that led to the failure of the upper stage and the nominal activation of the FTS. 🚀 SpaceX is now targeting Feb. 28 for the launch of Flight 8, pending regulatory approval. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🚀 Isar Aerospace completed all static fire tests of Spectrum's first and second stages, qualifying the vehicle for its maiden launch. The company is now waiting for approval and licensing from the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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This is disgusting! Calling a former ISS commander, retarded and idiot, for stupid political lies is unacceptable. All my support to Andreas.

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✈️ With the second and last test flight of the XB-1 aircraft, Boom demonstrated supersonic commercial flight without an audible sonic boom. Now the company will focus on the development of Overture, the potential successor of the iconic #Concorde. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🚀 Today, CASC carried out the inaugural flight of the Long March 8A rocket from Wenchang, marking #China's seventh orbital launch of 2025. 🛰️ The mission deployed a second batch of 10 satellites for the future SatNet LEO (Guowang) constellation. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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NASA has selected SpaceX to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our observations of exoplanet atmospheres

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🤝 US company Momentus Inc. has secured an expansion of contract from DARPA agency that will support an in-orbit demonstration of large-scale structure assembly. 🛰️ The mission is set to launch in 2026 aboard a SpaceX Transporter rideshare mission. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🔭 Today, @esa.int shared a major discovery made by the European #Euclid telescope: a stunning Einstein Ring around Galaxy NGC 6505. 🌌 The rare phenomenon is made up of light, distorted by gravity, from a bright galaxy 4.42 billion light-years away. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🔥 Today's static fire of Super Heavy B15 ahead of the eighth #Starship flight test. Credit: SpaceX

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Great shots of Super Heavy B15 on its way toward the pad for testing ahead of the eighth flight test. Credit: SpaceX

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🚀 Today, a #RocketLab' Electron successfully launched a new batch of five satellites to LEO for the French Kinéis. 🛰️ This is the fourth mission out of five planned to deliver the constellation, developed to enhance global IoT connectivity. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🚀 Recently, ATMOS received approval from the FAA for the first test flight of its Phoenix capsule in April 2025. Phoenix will launch aboard #SpaceX Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission and test its inflatable heat shield during atmospheric reentry. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🚀 Yesterday, #Russia launched the Kosmos 2581 satellite aboard the last #Soyuz 2.1v rocket. The mission also marked the retirement of the historic NK-33 engine, developed in the 1960s for the N1 rocket and lately bought by Aerojet. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/02...

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🚀 Today, Blue Origin successfully carried out the 29th New Shepard mission from Launch Site One in West Texas. 🌕 For the first time, the capsule provided two minutes of artificial lunar gravity conditions for several payloads during the flight. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/01...

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The latest Archimedes engine produced and ready for testing. According to Rocket Lab, almost 200 kg of weight reduction thanks to minor improvements.

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🤝 @esa.int selected @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social as the prime contractor for the construction of the Argonaut lunar lander. 🌕 From the 2030s, the vehicle will ensure independent transportation of various resources and equipment to the #Moon. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/01...

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🚀 Last night a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Hisdesat’s SpainSat New Generation I communication satellite from LC-39A. 🛰️ The SpainSat NG program aims to develop and operate the European most advanced next-gen military telecommunications satellites. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/01...

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🔬 Today, #NASA shared for the first time the results of the analysis of the sample collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission on the asteroid Bennu in 2020. 🧬 Scientists discovered several chemical compounds that are key for the formation of life. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/01...

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🚀 Today, @esa.int announced that Ariane 6 has been selected to launch the Plato mission in 2026. 🪐 Plato will discover, analyze, and catalog hundreds of exoplanets orbiting orbiting in habitable zones around more than 200.000 Sun-like stars. Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/01...

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For what it's worth, NASA already decided in August to bring back Butch & Suni via SpaceX: www.cnbc.com/2024/08/24/n... They're planned to return as part of Crew-9 after Crew-10 launches in March: blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcr...

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