Bezos uses Amazon to relaunch Blue Origin
Blue Origin: Jeff Bezos knows how to do maths well and does not discount. Leaving Amazon in the summer of 2021, the company founder has gradually stepped away from the…
Moon lander Odysseus mission to be cut short after sideways touchdown
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Flight control engineers expect to lose contact with the private U.S. moon lander Odysseus, cutting short the mission five days after its…
US achieves first moon landing in half century with private spacecraft
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) – A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the moon’s south pole on Thursday, the first U.S. touchdown…
Exploring nuclear solutions: deflecting asteroid threats from millions of miles away
A recent study has delved into the intriguing concept of launching a nuclear weapon “millions of miles” into space, proposing it as a potential solution to deflecting catastrophic asteroids hurtling towards Earth.…
Intuitive Machines shares descend fast after the CEO says the moon lander is on its side
By Akash Sriram, Harshita Mary Varghese and Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Shares of moon lander maker Intuitive Machines tumbled 30% in extended trade, wiping out a Friday rally after the…
Moon lander Odysseus tipped sideways on lunar surface but ‘alive and well’
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) – The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the…
How a Chinese rocket failure boosted Elon Musk’s SpaceX in Indonesia
By Stefanno Sulaiman, Devjyot Ghoshal and Joe Brock JAKARTA (Reuters) – When a Chinese rocket malfunctioned shortly after launch in April 2020, destroying Indonesia’s $220 million Nusantara-2 satellite, it was…
Interlune, the mystery startup that wants to create a sustainable space economy
Building a permanent base on the Moon is the most ambitious goal of the Artemis mission, with which Nasa is fine-tuning man’s return to Earth’s only natural satellite. Away from…
Launch of private US moon lander postponed by technical glitch in Florida
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The planned launch of a robotic moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was called off less…
Job cuts spill beyond tech sector
By Zaheer Kachwala, Harshita Mary Varghese, Samrhitha Arunasalam, Arsheeya Bajwa, Priyanka.G and Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) – Several U.S. and Canadian companies, mostly in sectors such as technology and media, have…