SpaceX has filed a final mishap investigation report to the FAA for its April 20 Starship integrated flight test, the FAA told Payload on Tuesday.
Payload 🚀
6,728 posts
Payload 🚀
@payloadspace
We cover the business and policy of space. Subscribe to our daily newsletter below.
- We are happy to announce that we have raised $650,000 in seed funding from @winklevosscap, @aweissman, @sammcingvale, @litcapital, @juliadewahl and a variety of investors. Thread 👇
- On the heels of a record-setting quarter, @RocketLab Lab announced Thursday that it had notched a major milestone in its quest for medium launch with a successful hotfire of its new Archimedes engine.
- News: Lauren Lyons is no longer with Firefly. She joined the company in August as COO.
- Vast, a space habitation technology company, is planning to launch the world’s first commercial space station, Haven-1, into LEO by August 2025, the company announced Wednesday.
- Yesterday, @RocketLab announced it has a paying customer for its medium-lift Neutron rocket. News of the contract with a confidential commercial satellite constellation operator caps off another strong quarter for the company in a record-setting year.
- In the heart of Texas ranch country, Firefly Aerospace is embracing the pioneering and do-it-all spirit of the frontier. @fireflyspace
- Relativity is in the final innings of prep work for “Good Luck, Have Fun,” its first orbital flight attempt. Payload sat down with @relativityspace boss @thetimellis to discuss the company’s recent announcements, Terran 1’s first flight, and more.
- Firefly made history when it became one of only a handful of privately funded players to reach orbit a month ago. Now, it is staffing up to scale production and ensure that October’s successful Alpha launch isn’t a one off.
- The role of commercial satellite imagery in war is rapidly shifting. @Satellogic and @AstraeaInc partnered to supply the Ukrainian gov with satellite imagery through their new portal called Ukraine Observer.
- CA-based advanced manufacturing startup @HadrianInc launched a new program today to help companies more effectively manage their supply chains.
- When the @SpaceX Dragon returned to Earth from the ISS on April 30, it returned 4,100 lbs. of cargo, but its most exciting payload may have been a tiny blot of cells—the first living cardiac tissue to be bioprinted in space.
- Two Electron rockets took flight Sunday, one from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula and the other from USA’s Wallops Island, making @RocketLab the first space company to launch from two different hemispheres in a 24-hour period.
