SpaceX pulled off its first spacewalk in the early hours of Thursday morning, in a historic first for a company. The marquee event of the private Polaris Dawn mission went smoothly, with two of the crew members — Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis — stepping outside of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule “Resilience.” It’s the first time civilians, rather than government astronauts, have performed a spacewalk.
AST SpaceMobile's first five commercial satellites have reached orbit.
NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. Including Seraphim portfolio companies ICEYE, Pixxel Space and Tomorrow io.
Astroscale’s UK branch announced it had won a contract on Wednesday to continue working on an active debris removal mission that will take two defunct British sats out of orbit. The £1.95M ($2.5M) contract from the UK Space Agency will fund development of the Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Captures, or COSMIC, spacecraft.
Japanese lunar firm ispace will launch its Hakuto-R lander to the Moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than December, CEO Takeshi Hakamada said yesterday.
