We’ve got big updates from across the space industry! Starship finally has a launch date for Flight 8, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander enters lunar orbit, and NASA’s Lunar Gateway moves forward with the HALO module getting ready for shipment. Meanwhile, ISAR Aerospace prepares for its first launch and the future of the ISS just got a little more complicated.
🔥 Topics Covered This Week:
Starship Flight 8 gets a launch date! 🚀
Firefly’s Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit – landing soon! 🌕
Hakuto-R’s lunar flyby and slow journey to Mare Frigoris
NASA stacks Artemis II’s Solid Rocket Boosters at KSC
First RS-25E engine completed & ready for testing at Stennis
HALO module for NASA’s Lunar Gateway is shipping to the US!
Isar’s Spectrum rocket gets closer to launch after static fire
Elon Musk’s tweets stir debate on ISS operations & deorbit plans
ESA’s Solar Orbiter completes a close flyby of Venus!
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🖋️ Written by Martijn Luinstra & Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@AlexPhysics13). Reporting at Thales Alenia Space in Turin: Adrian Beil. Interviewing Eric Berger: Ryan Caton.
🎥 Footage from: BocaChicaGal, Adrian Beil, Jerry Pike, Intrepid Museum, Isar Aerospace, Firefly Aerospace, ispace, NASA, Shujianyang, Vast, European Southern Observatory/O. Hainaut, minorplanetcenter.net, ESA, SpaceX, ESA/ATG medialab, Google Earth, CCTV/CASC, Roscosmos.
✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton (@DPodDolphinPro).
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
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