Four Humans Are On Their Way to the Moon | Space Voyaging This is no April Fool’s joke; four humans are flying aboard an Orion spacecraft toward the Moon, ushering in a new era of space exploration

🚀 On a historic day, #NASA successfully launched, from Florida, the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.

🌕🧑‍🚀 The #ArtemisII crew will now remain in Earth orbit for a day to prepare their four-day journey toward the lunar orbit.

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One Week to Artemis II Launch as NASA Reconsiders Its Lunar Strategy and Cancels Gateway | Space Voyaging Preparations continue for the Artemis II launch in early April. Meanwhile, NASA is reshaping the program’s future, leaving international partners behind

🚀 Preparations continue for the Artemis II launch, now scheduled for April 1st.

🌕 Meanwhile, NASA announced a major transformation of the Artemis program to focus on Lunar Base development. And now it's official: the Lunar Gateway is cancelled.

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Rocket Lab Conduct Debut Flight of DART Hypersonic Aircraft | Space Voyaging The Pentagon accelerates the development of hypersonic capabilities with the launch of a new commercial platform developed by the Australian company Hypersonix

🚀 Rocket Lab launched from Wallops the seventh HASTE mission, the second for the DIU's HyCAT program.

The rocket, released in the upper atmosphere Hypersonix's DART hypersonic demonstration vehicle powered by the SPARTAN scramjet engine.

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SpaceX Successfully Launches Crew-12 to the ISS | Space Voyaging Today SpaceX successfully launched the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral

🚀 SpaceX successfully launched Crew-12 toward the International Space Station from SLC-40.

Today's mission is carrying #NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot, and the cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

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As I wrote, dealing with liquid hydrogen has always been a major challenge. At the same time this is not the only reason behind the slow pace of SLS program. NASA’s difficulty in addressing technical issues is real and closely tied to the system's design. And they are now openly acknowledging it.

Why the Artemis II Launch is Delayed Again | Space Voyaging The launch of Artemis II has been postponed due to new issues with liquid hydrogen. The SLS is still problematic, and now NASA publicly acknowledges it

🚀 Artemis II, scheduled to launch in February, has suffered another delay due to issues related to liquid hydrogen. Not something new for the program.

NASA is now publicly acknowledging the criticalities of the Space Launch System.

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SpaceX Unveils ‘Stargaze’ New Space Situational Awareness System | Space Voyaging SpaceX announced Stargaze, a new space situational awareness system based on Starlink data, to improve orbital tracking and collision avoidance in Earth orbit

🛰️ #SpaceX has recently announced the launch of a new Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze.

Stargaze uses data collected from nearly 30,000 star trackers distributed across the Starlink satellite constellation.

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Ariane 6 Deploys Two New Galileo Satellites | Space Voyaging Ariane 6 successfully launched the Galileo L14 mission, deploying two navigation satellites into MEO and marking the rocket’s fifth flight since its debut

🚀 Today, Ariane 6 lifted off for the fourth time in 2025 from French Guiana.

🛰️ The VA266 mission carried two new Galileo satellites, further improving the precision, availability, and robustness of the European global navigation satellite system.

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Isar Aerospace signs New Contract and Moves Toward Second Spectrum Launch | Space Voyaging While preparing for Spectrum’s return to flight, Isar Aerospace continues to build the future launch manifest for its rocket

🤝 Today, the German company Isar Aerospace announced a new launch service agreement with SEOPS for the delivery of multiple payloads into a LEO orbit in 2028.

🚀 Meanwhile, Isar is preparing for the second Spectrum launch from Andøya Spaceport.

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European Space Cargo Program by SCU and ATMOS Set to Debut in 2026 | Space Voyaging SCU and ATMOS launch a seven-mission cargo program starting in 2026, bringing Europe closer to autonomous in-orbit manufacturing and commercial sample return

🚀 Recently, ATMOS and Space Cargo Unlimited announced that their first joint mission will fly aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in 2026.

The private mission will demonstrate the integration of SCU's BentoBox platform and ATMOS' PHOENIX 2 re-entry capsule.

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New Glenn Delivers NASA’s ESCAPADE in flawless Second Launch | Space Voyaging New Glenn’s perfect second flight finally launched NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft toward Mars. The mission also features a Viasat technology experiment

Today Blue Origin completed a flawless historic second New Glenn flight, launching the #NASA ESCAPADE mission toward Mars.

New Glenn’s first stage safely landed, making #BlueOrigin the second company ever to achieve a recovery of an orbital rocket.

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Ariane 6 Launches the New Sentinel-1D Earth Observation Satellite | Space Voyaging Sentinel-1D will join the other satellites of the EU's Copernicus Programme to monitor our planet. The flight marks the fourth launch of the Ariane 6 rocket

🚀 Today, the fourth Ariane 6 rocket successfully launched and deployed into orbit the Sentinel-1D Earth observation satellite.

🛰️ #Sentinel1D will replace Sentinel-1A, supporting the Copernicus Programme, managed by the @ec.europa.eu and @esa.int.

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Vast Reaches Orbit for the First Time with its New Haven Demo | Space Voyaging Vast’s Haven Demo reaches orbit aboard SpaceX’s Bandwagon-4, marking the company’s first major milestone toward its ambitious private station roadmap

🚀 Aboard SpaceX's Bandwagon-4 mission, @vast launched its technology demonstrator Haven Demo to test critical systems for Haven-1.

Vast has already completed most of the major milestones for the first module, ahead of a possible launch in 2026.

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Germany Pours Billions into Space Defence to Boost Europe’s Sovereign Deterrence | Space Voyaging Germany aims to consolidate its role in Europe’s defence, with the development of early-warning capabilities, and further multinational collaboration in orbit

Recently, the German government announced a €35 billion investment in space defence projects by 2030.

🛰️ Berlin is also working with France to develop a European satellite early warning system, consolidating its position in Europe and NATO.

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Rocket Lab Deploys New StriX Synspective Satellite | Space Voyaging On October 15 NZT, Rocket Lab launched the "Owl New World" mission for Synspective, carrying a new StriX SAR satellite to join the company's constellation

🚀 Today, @rocketlabcorp.com successfully launched a new StriX SAR satellite for Synspective from New Zealand.

🛰️ “Owl New World” is Rocket Lab’s seventh launch for Synspective in a series of missions to deploy their Earth-imaging constellation.

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Unveiling Arc, the New Orbital Courier by Inversion Space | Space Voyaging Inversion presents Arc, a reusable spacecraft designed for on-demand orbital delivery and hypersonic testing, aiming to reshape space logistics as early as 2026

Recently, Inversion unveiled Arc, an innovative space-based delivery vehicle.

Arc enables rapid cargo drop-offs anywhere on Earth in under an hour from orbit while providing a platform for hypersonic testing.

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NASA Gives New Life to the VIPER Lunar Mission | Space Voyaging NASA revives the VIPER rover, signing a $190M option for Blue Origin to land on the Moon in 2027, after demonstrating the Blue Moon MK-1 lander's reliability

🌕 VIPER will have a second life. Blue Origin has been selected to deliver the rover to the Moon aboard the second Blue Moon Mk1 lander in 2027.

Previously, in July 2024, NASA canceled the VIPER mission due to cost and schedule pressure.

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Possible first agreement between Thales, Airbus, and Leonardo by the end of this year.

🛰️ A €10 billion Joint Venture for satellite mass production to compete with major US players (Starlink, Amazon Kuiper...) and China.

Looking ahead to EU antitrust approval.

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Thales-Leonardo-Airbus Joint Venture could debut in 2025 | Space Voyaging The first agreements for the future strategic European satellite joint venture could be finalized in the coming months between Thales, Airbus and Leonardo

🤝 A top Airbus executive confirmed that the first agreements for the JV with Thales and Leonardo could be signed in 2025.

🛰️ The project aims to create a leading European satellite manufacturer capable of competing with major global players.

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Astrobotic Will Launch Xodiac From the New Andoya Spaceport | Space Voyaging Astrobotic will bring its reusable Xodiac lander testbed to Andoya in 2026, marking Europe’s first rocket landings and expanding the Northern spaceport role

🤝 Recently, Astrobotic signed a term sheet with Andøya Space to bring its reusable vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle, Xodiac, to Norway.

The first European campaigns are expected to begin in 2026.

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Skyrora Cleared for UK Suborbital Launches with New License | Space Voyaging Skyrora is the first UK company to secure a suborbital commercial launch license from British soil, marking a major step in Britain’s sovereign space ambitions

🇬🇧 Skyrora has become the first UK-based space company to secure a launch license for a commercial vehicle.

🚀 The CAA license authorizes up to 16 launches of the Skylark L sub-orbital rocket from Scotland’s SaxaVord spaceport.

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Gilmour Space Attempts Its First Launch and Fails | Space Voyaging The first orbital Australian-made rocket, Eris, by Gilmour Space, lifted off the Bowen Orbital Spaceport but crashed on the ground shortly after

Today, Gilmour Space attempted the first historical orbital launch from Australian soil.

🚀 The Eris rocket, however, fell back to the ground 14 seconds after liftoff due to multiple engine failures.

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Transporter-14, A New Successful Rideshare Mission by SpaceX | Space Voyaging SpaceX’s Transporter-14 deployed 70 payloads, including Europe’s Nyx demo capsule and Varda’s W‑4, both pushing the frontier of reentry and space manufacturing

🚀 Last night, SpaceX launched Transporter-14 from Vandenberg, carrying 70 payloads, including Varda's W-4 and Mission Possible for The Exploration Company.

🛰️ The mission also delivered seven satellites from Argotec for the Italian IRIDE constellation.

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Proba-3 Released the First Self-Eclipsed Image of the Sun’s Corona | Space Voyaging ESA’s Proba-3 creates the first artificial solar eclipse in space, opening a new era in solar corona research through two-spacecraft precision formation flying

☀️ On Monday, @esa.int released the first image from a groundbreaking mission: the creation of an artificial total solar eclipse in space.

🛰️ The experiment was accomplished by Proba-3, a pair of satellites flying in precise formation around Earth.

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ispace’s Second Hakuto-R Lunar Landing Attempt Ends in Silence | Space Voyaging Ispace Hakuto-R's second lunar mission failed, but the company’s plans continue with new landers and rovers aimed at building a sustainable lunar economy

🌕 ispace's second #Hakuto-R mission failed to safely land on the surface of the Moon.

Initial analyses indicate that an instrumentation error prevented a nominal descent, resulting in a hard impact and the loss of communications with the lander.

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Sierra Space Expands on Its new Lunar Contract for NASA | Space Voyaging Sierra Space reveals details of its NASA lunar logistics contract, expanding its LIFE habitat technology from LEO to Moon missions under the Artemis program

🌕 Sierra Space has been awarded a contract by NASA to explore how its LIFE inflatable habitat could be repurposed for staging, transport, and storage on the Moon.

The study contract falls under NASA’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix R initiative.

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🚀 Following FAA's approval, SpaceX is preparing for the ninth #Starship flight test, the first to feature a flight-proven Super Heavy booster.

Here’s a deep dive into what went wrong during Flight 8 and what to expect for the next launch from Starbase: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/05...

Reflect Orbital: A New Dawn for Earth’s Nighttime Illumination | Space Voyaging Reflect's project aims to revolutionize nighttime lighting on Earth using orbital mirrors, drawing inspiration from past experiments like Znamya-2

☀️ Reflect Orbital is raising funds to deploy a constellation of mirrors in orbit designed to illuminate specific areas on Earth.

According to the company, it will be possible to request sunlight, initially at the intensity of a full moon, on demand.

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A New Ride on Electron: The Sea God Sees | Space Voyaging Rocket Lab’s Electron launches QPS-SAR-10 “WADATSUMI-I” from New Zealand, boosting iQPS’s Japanese satellite constellation for high-res Earth observation

🚀 This morning, @rocketlabusa.com successfully launched the third dedicated Electron mission for iQPS, delivering a SAR imaging satellite.

🛰️ The Japanese Earth imaging company aims to deploy a constellation of 36 satellites by 2027.

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Rocket Lab’s Neutron Rocket to Provide Cargo Delivery for the U.S. Air Force | Space Voyaging Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket secures AFRL mission for 2026, amid new contracts, legal scrutiny, and rapid progress toward its first flight later this year

🚀 The USAF Research Laboratory has selected Rocket Lab to conduct a Neutron demonstration mission to test reentry and rapid cargo delivery capabilities.

Neutron is undergoing hardware qualification testing in preparation for its maiden flight.

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