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The mission officially ended on July 31, 2025, following five months of recovery efforts that began when communications were lost the day after launch.
ATMOS Space Cargo has successfully completed the first orbital test flight of its PHOENIX 1 capsule, a next-generation re-entry system featuring the company’s proprietary Inflatable Heat Shield (IHS).
In a carefully choreographed final sequence, ESA has officially ended operations of its Gaia spacecraft; “We will never forget Gaia, and Gaia will never forget us,” - Uwe Lammers, Gaia Mission Manager.
On March 3, NASA made history when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to successfully acquire and track Earth-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals on the Moon’s surface.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage from a recent Starlink mission has reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over Europe.
Newly Released Image Captured by Onboard Camera Shows Earth from High-Energy Orbit as the X-37B Conducts Groundbreaking Aerobraking Maneuvers
Firefly Aerospace is preparing for a historic lunar landing, with its Blue Ghost lander targeting touchdown no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to navigate the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus to date; this historic gravity-assist maneuver will bring the spacecraft within just 379 kilometers (235 miles) of the planet’s surface—closer than the altitude of the International Space Station above Earth.
Asteroid 2024 YR4, a potential "city killer" asteroid has been discovered and early risk assessments have revealed a 1.9% chance that it could collide with Earth on December 22, 2032; raising concerns among scientists and planetary defense experts worldwide.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has confirmed that its recently launched NVS-02 navigation satellite has encountered a major propulsion system failure, leaving it stranded in an elliptical transfer orbit and at risk of reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
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