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Rocket Lab’s ROI for Neutron. Feb 28, 2025

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Rocket Lab shares financial updates and pushes back the Neutron’s inaugural flight to the second half of the year. Skylo has raised $30 million in an oversubscribed funding round. Varda Space has retrieved their W2 capsule from the Koonibba Test Range after completing the first commercial space reentry in Australia, and more.

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Rocket Lab Announces Full Year & Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Results, Posts Record Revenue Representing 26% Sequential Growth, 78% Annual Growth and 121% Year-on-Year Quarterly Growth

Rocket Lab Reveals Ocean Platform for Neutron Rocket Landings at Sea

Rocket Lab Signs Second Multi-Launch Deal, Secures Eight Electron Missions with iQPS

Skylo Raises $30M in Oversubscribed Funding Round to Scale Direct-to-Device Satellite Service Worldwide

Varda Space Industries Makes History with the First Successful Commercial Space Reentry in Australia

Sierra Space to Advance Cancer Research on Inaugural Dream Chaser® Spaceplane Mission to the International Space Station

The Aerospace Corporation Performs Optical Crosslinks Between CubeSats for the First Time

NASA, SpaceX Update the Launch of Space Telescope and Sun Missions

What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 8 launch on March 3?- Space

Auburn secures $11.4M DOD contract for critical space defense project

Spherex | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

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Arise the era of the Goddess. Feb 27, 2025

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Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander Athena is heading to the Moon. Varda’s W2 spacecraft lands back in the Australian outback after completing its second mission. Astroscale Japan has been awarded a 7.27 billion yen contract by Japan’s Ministry of Defense to develop a responsive space system demonstration satellite prototype, and more.

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IM-2 | Intuitive Machines

Astroscale Japan Secures Contract with Japanese Ministry of Defense to Develop a Responsive Space System Demonstration Satellite Prototype

Nikon Selected to Implement the Space Strategy Fund at JAXA "Innovative Technology for Lightweight, High Performance, and Lower Cost Space Transportation Systems"

Lumen Orbit changes name to Starcloud and raises another $10M for space data centers

Weather Stream Awarded ONR Contract to Advance SPECTRUM for Environmental Remote Sensing

Satellogic EarthView Dataset Now Openly Accessible via Registry of Open Data on AWS

Virgin Galactic Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

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Blue Origin Announces Crew For New Shepard’s 31st Mission

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AST SpaceMobile is on a roll. Feb 26, 2025

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AST SpaceMobile has been awarded a contract in support of the US Space Development Agency (SDA) through a prime contractor, with total expected revenue of $43 million. SpaceX says a small liquid oxygen leak caused its Falcon 9 second stage to reenter Earth's atmosphere over Europe last week. Astroscale’s ADRAS-J concludes phase I of the commercial removal of debris demonstration for JAXA, and more.

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AST SpaceMobile Secures $43 Million Contract in Support of U.S. Space Development Agency Through Prime Contractor | Business Wire

SpaceX

Astroscale ADRAS-J Update Phase I of the Commercial Activity

Flight VA263 now scheduled on March 3, 2025

NASA Prepares Gateway Lunar Space Station for Journey to Moon

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 Mission - NASA

Huntsville, Ala., hopes President Trump delivers on Space Command

Praveen Kurian Promoted to Senior VP of Defense Space at SAIC - GovCon Wire

TESS and JWST Unveil Disintegrating Planetary Interiors

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All change at the top for NASA. Feb 25, 2025

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Vanessa Wyche appointed as the acting associate administrator for NASA. Verizon and AST SpaceMobile have conducted the first live video call between two mobile devices with one connected via satellite and the other connected via Verizon’s terrestrial network. The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability partnership (DARC) has completed facilities construction at the first of three sites that will host a global network of advanced ground-based sensors, and more.

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NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes

Verizon completes its first satellite to cellular enabled video call with AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 2

Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability makes tremendous progress in first year

Watch Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launch 10th space tourism flight today

KBR Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2024 Results

SpaceX Falcon 9 Intuitive Machines (IM-2) - Kennedy Space Center Events

NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 91 Launch, Space Station Docking

SpaceX targeting Feb. 28 for next launch of Starship megarocket

Columbia Sportswear offers limited edition apparel celebrating its 2nd moon mission- collectSPACE

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NOAA selects BAE for Space Weather Next. Feb 24, 2025

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BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems has won a $230.6 million contract to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission. The first Australian-designed and built rocket by Gilmour Space is scheduled for its inaugural launch on March 15, and more.

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Our guest today is Mark Lester, Aerospace and Defense consultant at Merrick.

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NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Program

NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contract

Gilmour Space announces launch window for Australia’s first sovereign orbital rocket

Eutelsat succeeds in world's first 5G network trial from space with Airbus, MediaTek- Reuters

Rocket Lab Clears Critical Design Review for Space Force VICTUS HAZE Mission

Space Force bumps Astrion from Resilient GPS program

NASA, SpaceX Move Launch of Space Telescope, Sun Missions

Redwire Camera Technology to Launch On Board Intuitive Machines’ Second Commercial Mission to the Moon

Kapta Space Launches out of Stealth Mode to Develop the Next Generation of Advanced Spaceborne Radar Systems

DVIDS - Images - Novel space maneuver conducted by X-37B

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International licensing and reentry. Feb 22, 2025

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European startup Atmos Space Cargo has received the regulatory approvals it needs for its first mission to demonstrate reentry technologies. The Company is based in Germany, is launching its Phoenix capsule from the US, and intends to return it in international waters. Sebastian Klaus CEO and Co-founder of ATMOS Space Cargo and Dr. Ingo Baumann, partner at BHO Legal talk us through the process of obtaining licenses for their first mission.

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PLD to launch from Oman. Feb 21, 2025

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You can find out more about ATMOS Space Cargo on their website.

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India’s new funding for space startups. Feb 20, 2025

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The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has launched a $57.58 million fund to support early-stage space technologies and reduce reliance on imports. The US Department of the Air Force has agreed to revoke a Space Development Agency (SDA) award to Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, and reopen bidding. SAIC and AWS have been awarded contracts by NOAA to provide cloud hosting services for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS), and more.

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Our guest today is Scotland’s Trade Envoy to Space, Daniel Smith.

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India's space regulator launches $58 million fund to boost startups, cut reliance on imports- Reuters

In response to Viasat suit, SDA will recompete 10-satellite award to Tyvak - Breaking Defense

NOAA Awards $4.8M TraCSS Cloud Services Order

SuperSharp and NanoAvionics to partner on a disruptive Thermal InfraRed (TIR) imaging satellite

NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free to Retire After 30 Years Service

SpaceX Starlink mission lands rocket off coast of The Bahamas for 1st time

60 Years Ago: John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 - NASA

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Did a Falcon 9 second stage crash in Poland? Feb 19, 2025

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Space debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage creates a fireball over Europe in the early hours of the morning. True Anomaly opens a 90,000 square foot factory in Long Beach, California. Exolaunch opens a new location in Toulouse, France, and more.

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Our guest today is Alex Pospekhov, CEO and co-founder of Mission Space.

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Services check whether remnants of SpaceX rocket fell on western Poland | Polska Agencja Prasowa SA

Dutchspace.bsky.social

True Anomaly Announces Significant Expansion into California with Long Beach Campus

Careers

Exolaunch France

United States-India Joint Leaders’ Statement – The White House

Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 60th Electron, First of Multiple Missions for BlackSky- Business Wire

Fireflyspace_weve-got-the-scoop

Blue Origin Announces Crew for New Shepard’s 30th Mission

Trump says Musk will not take part in space-related government decisions- Reuters

Jumping workouts could help astronauts on the moon and Mars, study in mice suggests | ScienceDaily

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The CAT (IOD) is on the prowl. Feb 18, 2025

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Astroscale UK for the Capture Bay for Active Debris Removal (CAT) for In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) mission. AAC Clyde Space kicks off a €30 million maritime domain awareness constellation with support from ESA. The ESA/ NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft readies for its closest encounter with Venus, and more.

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Our guest today is Jeff Gilbert from Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

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Selected Reading

Advancing In-Orbit Servicing: Astroscale’s Role in ESA’s CAT IOD Mission

Interim report for AAC Clyde Space AB (publ) January - March 2024

ESA - Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus

NASA Awards Blue Origin Category 1 Certification- TalkOfTitusville.com

Fasten Your Space Belts- Rocket Lab

SeedFord Investment Company Backs Privateer in Global Expansion of Earth Intelligence and AI Solutions

Maritime Launch Services Announces Approval of Financing and Two-Year Debenture Extension- Business Wire

ispace Completes Success 5 of Mission 2 Milestones- Business Wire

Scientists see powerful explosion from mysterious, unknown object in space | The Independent

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