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Reuters • Prakhar Srivastava

Firefly Aerospace Files for IPO, Reveals $176.9M Cash Hoard Post-Lunar Landing

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, fresh from a historic robotic lunar landing, confidentially filed an S-1 registration for an initial public offering, disclosing $176.9 million in cash and cash equivalents and securing funding runway through at least mid-2026 despite ongoing operational losses.

2025-07-11T14:15:09.399377-07:00

CNN

SpaceX Starship Test Flight 9 Breaks Up on Uncontrolled Reentry

2025-05-27T16:45:41.810943-07:00

Politico

White House Withdraws Jared Isaacman’s NASA Nomination, Citing America First Alignment

2025-05-31T12:18:00.705047-07:00

Space.com

ispace’s Resilience lander likely crashes during second lunar touchdown attempt

2025-06-05T12:52:52.576817-07:00

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The Independent

Pope Leo XIV Commemorates Apollo 11’s 56th Anniversary with Vatican Observatory Visit and Call to Buzz Aldrin Pope Leo XIV on Sunday visited the Vatican Astronomical Observatory in Castel Gandolfo to mark the 56th anniversary of Apollo 11’s lunar landing and placed a call to veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin, underscoring the Vatican’s ongoing engagement with space exploration.

2025-07-20T14:24:31.666313-07:00

Pope Leo XIV Commemorates Apollo 11’s 56th Anniversary with Vatican Observatory Visit and Call to Buzz Aldrin

SpaceWatch Global

From Footprints to Frameworks: International Moon Day 2025 Kicks Off New Era in Lunar Exploration On International Moon Day 2025, space agencies, governments and commercial players commemorate the Apollo 11 landing’s legacy and outline a series of coordinated frameworks—from lunar data-sharing to public-private development—to govern exploration, resource utilization and heritage preservation, marking a shift from first footsteps to sustainable lunar operations.

2025-07-20T08:43:19.890335-07:00

From Footprints to Frameworks: International Moon Day 2025 Kicks Off New Era in Lunar Exploration

CBS News

56 Years After Apollo 11: NASA’s Artemis Aims for 2026 Lunar Return, Sets Sights on Mars in 2030s Sunday marks 56 years since Apollo 11’s lunar touchdown. NASA is advancing its Artemis program with a crewed lunar flyby on Artemis II in 2026, followed by a south-pole landing on Artemis III and a planned crewed mission to Mars in the 2030s.

2025-07-18T19:39:09.141566-07:00

56 Years After Apollo 11: NASA’s Artemis Aims for 2026 Lunar Return, Sets Sights on Mars in 2030s

JoongAng Daily

South Korea Targets 2045 Lunar Base with Resource-Driven Space Roadmap South Korea’s space agency unveiled a long-term exploration roadmap targeting a lunar base by 2045 alongside a Mars lander mission. The plan prioritizes in-situ resource utilization, infrastructure development on the Moon and progressive robotic missions to secure Seoul’s role in the emerging cislunar economy.

2025-07-17T14:43:37.381760-07:00

South Korea Targets 2045 Lunar Base with Resource-Driven Space Roadmap

Space.com

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Chang'e-6 Samples Unveil Ancient Volcanism, Magnetism and Water-Depleted Mantle on Moon's Far Side Chang'e-6 returned samples from the Moon's far side revealing a record of ancient volcanism and residual magnetism, alongside a mantle notably depleted in key elements and water. These insights challenge existing models of lunar evolution and refine our understanding of lunar differentiation.

2025-07-16T03:07:02.083576-07:00

Chang'e-6 Samples Unveil Ancient Volcanism, Magnetism and Water-Depleted Mantle on Moon's Far Side

Space.com

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ locks in Artemis lunar funding while gutting NASA science President Trump’s omnibus ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ seeks to lock in funding for crewed lunar missions under Artemis but proposes deep cuts to NASA’s science portfolio. The FY26 budget would cancel dozens of planetary and Earth-observation projects, imperiling university-led research at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

2025-07-15T07:02:07.467822-07:00

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ locks in Artemis lunar funding while gutting NASA science

CNBC

Investors Target Lunar Data Centers and Cislunar Infrastructure as Next Real Estate Frontier Venture and institutional investors are shifting focus beyond Earth orbit, targeting the lunar surface as the next fixed-asset market. Demand for on-site data processing hubs, power plants, landing pads and logistics modules could drive a multibillion-dollar cislunar infrastructure sector within this decade.

2025-07-15T06:52:21.232276-07:00

Investors Target Lunar Data Centers and Cislunar Infrastructure as Next Real Estate Frontier

Space.com

Asteroid Mining Feasibility Hinges on Lunar Impact Site Trials A new analysis proposes kickstarting asteroid mining by first extracting metals deposited at lunar impact sites. Testing extraction techniques on the Moon’s enriched craters could de-risk deep-space operations, refine processing technologies and shape future regulatory frameworks for off-Earth resource exploitation.

2025-07-12T05:04:32.112714-07:00

Asteroid Mining Feasibility Hinges on Lunar Impact Site Trials

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