<p>Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a Series A round as it works to launch its first low Earth orbit demonstration in 2026.  The San Carlos, California-based startup, which came out of stealth last October, aims to eventually launch a constellation of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jeff Bezos&#8217; space company Blue Origin is preparing for a second launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket in &#8220;late spring,&#8221; the company announced Monday. The company also believes it has determined why the booster stage failed during an attempted landing on an ocean platform during the inaugural flight in January. Blue Origin said it has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has allowed Chinese investors to buy stakes as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore hubs, according to reporting from ProPublica.&nbsp; SpaceX is a defense contractor for the Pentagon, one that handles sensitive work like building a classified spy satellite network. Investment from China [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sunita &#8220;Suni&#8221; Williams and Barry &#8220;Butch&#8221; Wilmore have returned to Earth after a nine-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS) &#8212; a trip that lasted far longer than originally planned thanks to leaks and thruster problems on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they used to get there. Williams and Wilmore splashed down in the Gulf [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The constellation will keep a close eye on wildfires, eventually imaging nearly all of the Earth’s surface once every 20 minutes.</p>

<p>SpaceX successfully launched four people into space on Friday, beginning a mission that will give the International Space Station enough crew members to allow astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth after their nine-month stay. The mission, known as Crew-10, will see SpaceX&#8217;s Dragon spacecraft dock with the International Space Station (ISS) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reliance Jio has partnered with SpaceX to offer Starlink to its customers in India just hours after Airtel&#8217;s partnership.</p>

<p>Airtel has tied up with SpaceX to launch Starlink in India.</p>

<p>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt&#8217;s first CEO job since he left Google nearly 15 years ago. On Monday, Schmidt told employees of Relativity Space that he made a significant investment [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intuitive Machines&#8217; Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon&#8217;s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to &#8220;accelerate several program and payload milestones&#8221; and deploy a few of the experiments that were riding shotgun before Athena&#8217;s lander ran out of juice. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SpaceX&#8217;s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle&nbsp;has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly halted flights into major Florida airports and appears to have diverted some others out of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ever. Unfortunately, much like that first attempt, it seems the company&#8217;s spacecraft may have tipped on its side. The lunar lander, called Athena, touched down on the moon&#8217;s surface at around 12:30 p.m. ET [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Poland&#8217;s space agency (POLSA) says it is working to restore services following a cybersecurity incident. POLSA, the Polish government agency responsible for the country’s space activities, said in a post on X that it had “immediately disconnected” its network from the internet after detecting the cyberattack on Sunday. POLSA’s website remains offline at the time [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jeff Bezos&#8217; rocket company, Blue Origin, announced the crew for its next mission on Thursday, which can only mean one thing: more random rich people are going to space. The crew most notably includes pop star Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King. They will be joined by two scientists &#8212; Aisha Bowe and Amanda [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Data storage and resilience company Lonestar and semiconductor and storage company Phison launched a data center infrastructure on a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday that&#8217;s headed to the moon. The companies are sending Phison&#8217;s Pascari storage — solid state drives (SSDs) built for data centers — packed with Lonestar&#8217;s clients&#8217; data on a SpaceX Falcon 9 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Orbital mobility took center-stage in the space industry last year, with venture capitalists funneling massive sums into startups developing tech for nimble satellite operations. So it’s no surprise that one of the most recent deals is to Magdrive, a U.K.-based startup that says its electric propulsion system for satellites will deliver a higher thrust in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SpaceX said Monday that last month&#8217;s Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company says has been addressed ahead of an eighth test flight that could happen as early as Friday. The spaceflight company is still waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Blue Origin is laying off 10% of its workforce, according to Reuters, just one month after the successful first launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket. The company reportedly has more than 10,000 employees, meaning the cut could affect around 1,000 people. CEO Dave Limp told employees in an all-hands meeting Thursday morning the company is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do.&nbsp; But when they [&hellip;]</p>