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Analysis: US military gets serious about using rockets for point-to-point cargo delivery on Earth
A string of recent orders indicates a rising appetite for point-to-point (P2P) deliveries on Earth, as the US military looks for ways to deliver large cargos anywhere in the world within an hour. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the US Department of Defense (DoD)...
NASA faces up to White House plan for more science cuts and for Artemis to have one human lunar landing attempt
The Trump Administration has proposed cutting NASA’s budget by 32%, earning it the nickname of “the Skinny Budget”. The President’s Budget Request (PBR) for the fiscal year to end-September 2026 is US$18.8 billion, a cut of US$6.1 billion from NASA’s US$24.9 billion...
Satellite and Launch Orders – April 2025
The following construction and launch orders for the space industry were announced in April 2025: Construction Orders: Astranis received a US$115 million GEO comsat order for Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom China revealed solar system exploration launch plans Boeing readies...
Seradata’s recommended space stories – April 2025
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 April (space orders can also be found in another...
Firefly Alpha fails to make orbit after explosion damages second-stage nozzle
The first stage of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket blew up after separation, damaging the second stage and setting off a chain of events that meant Alpha narrowly missed out on achieving orbit. The vehicle lifted off on flight FLTA006 “Message in a Booster” at 1337...
Bandwagon 3 mission went smoothly for most payloads but put Phoenix 1 into too steep re-entry
Phoenix 1, a re-entry capsule on board the Bandwagon 3 rideshare mission, returned to Earth at a steeper angle than originally intended, after SpaceX adjusted the mission plans for a fellow payload less than two months before the launch. The payload, developed by...
Are SPABRIBs the solution to space debris? Insurers think so
As the end of the day drew closer at the 2025 Farnborough International Space Show (FISS), the main stage became, briefly, a place for meditation. The unlikely practitioner was self-described “Insurance Guru” Charles Vermont, the Chair of ‘The 695th Lord Mayor of...
NASA’s ‘stranded’ astronauts finally return to Earth – in a different spacesuit and spacecraft
The ‘stranded’ pair of NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, finally returned to Earth on 18 March bringing an end to their extended stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The venture was supposed to last just eight days but ended up exceeding nine...
Astranis UtilitySat is stranded in transfer orbit – likely total loss
UtilitySat, one of four small communications satellites, launched for Astranis, has failed on its way to its planned geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) operational location, according to industry officials, reported first by Space Intel Report. The craft was launched by...
Commercial Crew Dragon Fram-2 mission carries first astronauts to polar orbit
Rockets have carried humans around the world, mainly in low Earth orbits (LEO), and even, on occasion, to the Moon and back. Yet orbits over the polar regions of the Earth remained unexplored by peopled spacecraft. That was until April when SpaceX launched Fram-2, the...
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