~orbitalindex | Issue No. 309 (58)
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NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission - NASA
IM-2 Athena lander touched down near the Moon’s south pole
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Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
the mission was declared over
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Intuitive Machines Picked for Fourth Lunar Mission
IM-4 will again aim for the south pole
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Starship destroyed on second consecutive test flight
four of its six Raptor engines shut down, and the craft began to tumble
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SpaceX Make The Same Mistake Twice With Starship Flight 8
timeline and analysis of the full launch
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/1i2hxta/another_day_another_leaked_starship_internal_view/
burn-through from previous flights
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1j69zha/possible_leaked_screenshot_of_s34_missing_an_rvac/
completely missing Raptor RVAC
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NASA’s Voyager Will Do More Science With New Power Strategy
NASA’s power management strategy
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White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent
Upsetting rumors of possible massive NASA science budget cuts are circling
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NASA closes offices, lays off staff as it prepares for larger workforce reductions
including the Office of the Chief Scientist
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the new leader of Relativity Space
Eric Schmidt is now Relativity Space’s CEO
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ISRO Starts Construction Work At Kulasekarapattinam For A New Rocket Launchpad
construction for a new launch pad
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Isar Aerospace secures first Asian customer ahead of debut launch
acquired their first Asian customer
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China expands secretive satellite series with launch of TJS-15
launched a classified satellite
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Firefly Aerospace Ready to Launch Alpha FLTA006 for Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 Spacecraft No Earlier Than March 15
soon launch a Lockheed Martin spacecraft on their Alpha rocket
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https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/europes-ariane-6-stages-first-commercial-launch-2025-03-06/
Ariane 6 launched from French Guiana successfully on its second mission
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NASA just lost yet another one of its low-cost planetary missions
not looking good for NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer
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MOON OPS - Blue Ghost Launches 4 LMS Electrodes & Deploys 8 Foot Mast
deploying a mast and chucking electrodes
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https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00108-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867425001084%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
low microbial diversity and potential health impacts.
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Moon Monday #216: Firefly Blue Ghost brings precision landing and lunar sci-tech bounties
bunch of other payloads on Blue Ghost have been operating as well
