The following construction and launch orders for the space industry were announced in March 2025: Construction Orders: Airbus DS has won a contract to provide a lander for the ExoMars rover – replacing Russia, which was originally supposed to provide the component...
Construction Orders Pair of Oberon radar satellites for UK military to be built by Airbus DS Thales Alenia Space secured lunar Gateway space station airlock module contract DPhi Space Clustergate 1 mission on Transporter 13 to carry Zohar-1 space weather sensor hosted...
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of February (space orders can be found in...
Firefly Blue Ghost 1, the lunar lander owned and operated by Firefly Aerospace, made a successful touchdown on the Moon on 2 March. Just four days later another commercial lunar lander, IM-2 Athena, made its own ill-fated attempt to land on Earth’s natural satellite....
A Kuiazhou 1A (KZ-1A) three-stage solid rocket was set to launch on 1 March at about 1001 GMT from Jiuquan, China. However, whether it made it off the pad intact was called into question after reports gained traction that KZ-1A suffered an explosive failure. An...
The Starship/Super Heavy suffered a serious launch failure during a suborbital flight test, for the second time in a row. Numerous observers in the Bahamas and at least one aircraft saw the Starship stage break up into fiery debris at nearly nine minutes after its...
