Aerospace Investor News

19/12/2024

121 years ago, the Wright brothers achieved the unimaginable, taking humankind from the ground to the skies. 🌍✈️
Just as powered flight opened new horizons, we believe lunar commercialization will unlock the resources, data, and infrastructure to explore beyond Earth.
Image Courtesy: National Park Service

19/12/2024

SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads

Ghost Riders in the Sky is ready to fly.

19/12/2024

12/12/2024

9 December 1988, CNES astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien became the first European to make a spacewalk during his mission. Chrétien and crewmate Alexander Volkov spent six hours outside the Russian Mir space station, the longest EVA at the time.
👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Aragatz

12/12/2024

This week in 2021 Intuitive Machines struck gold with Columbia Sportswear. Together, we've completed Columbia's most ambitious gear test to day with Omni-Heat Infinity tech on the Moon, and we're not done yet.

22/11/2024

in 2022 Intuitive Machines was given the green light to leverage its Direct-to-Earth data transmission network and Mission Control Center to track the Artemis I Orion spacecraft in real time as an opportunity to demonstrate our capability to determine spacecraft position and velocity.

22/11/2024

22/11/2024

26 years ago space exploration took a giant leap forward by establishing the International Space Station in 1998. The Station is not only a symbol of international cooperation, but a springboard helping us mitigate the challenges of living in space as we prepare for our next destination - the Moon! Happy Anniversary Space Station!

31/05/2024

24/05/2024

👩‍🚀👨‍🚀We have two new astronauts going to space!

Sophie Adenot and Raphael Liegeois are the first two astronauts from the ESA astronaut Class of 2022 who will embark on long-duration missions to the International Space Station currently scheduled for 2026.

🔗https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/ESA_astronauts_Sophie_Adenot_and_Raphael_Liegeois_assigned_for_Space_Station_mission

24/05/2024

24/05/2024

24/05/2024

Bring the SPF1000. Engineers completed solar array testing for our second mission, and The Boeing Company Spectrolab panels are ready for flight.

24/05/2024

We are excited to announce that ispace has reached an agreement with the University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester to collaborate on approaches to lunar night survivability for our future lander and rover missions.

The strategic consulting agreement will explore survivability utilizing Radioisotope Heater Units in the cryogenic environment on our Series 3 lunar lander, which is currently under development.

“Our work with the University of Leicester to transport UK technologies to the Moon and test their effectiveness against the lunar night is another example of the ispace’s unique capability. This collaboration exemplifies the global nature of the cislunar economy, the importance of academic institutions contributing to the vision, and the potential for great achievements,” said Takeshi Hakamada, ispace Founder and CEO.

Read more here: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=5446

24/05/2024

Why Flight Attendants Always Sit on Their Hands During Takeoff and Landing

24/05/2024

We have science data!

On May 19, mission scientists resumed receiving data from two of the four science instruments aboard our 46-year-old spacecraft.

Next up: Recalibrating the two remaining instruments, which could take weeks. https://go.nasa.gov/3UUhI9v

23/05/2024

Firefly Aerospace may soon be sold for USD 1.5 billion. This is reported by sources close to its main investors.