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Intuitive Machines to acquire Lanteris for $800M, gaining $920M backlog and >$850M combined revenue

Intuitive Machines will acquire Lanteris Space Systems from Advent International for $800 million — $450M cash and $350M in Class A stock — creating a combined entity with revenue above $850M, positive adjusted EBITDA and a $920M backlog that strengthens lunar, Near Space Network and Earth-based data services.

2025-11-04T03:10:56.480880-08:00

Ars Technica

“Athena” plan outlines Isaacman’s NASA blueprint, triggers Capitol Hill scrutiny

2025-11-03T09:11:31.878585-08:00

NASA Spaceflight

Scrutiny Grows Over Starship HLS as NASA Signals Possible Competition and Musk Pushes Back

2025-11-01T14:45:07.512710-07:00

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SpaceX proposes simplified Starship HLS to speed Artemis III crewed lunar landing after NASA criticism

2025-10-30T12:11:20.136814-07:00

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Blue Origin sets Nov. 9 New Glenn launch for NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars smallsats Blue Origin's New Glenn is slated to launch no earlier than Nov. 9 from Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's ESCAPADE "Blue" and "Gold" twin smallsats — the first dual‑satellite mission to another planet. A successful Oct. 30 static fire of New Glenn's seven BE‑4 engines cleared a key prelaunch check.

2025-11-06T01:57:24.930290-08:00

Blue Origin sets Nov. 9 New Glenn launch for NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars smallsats

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Tianwen‑1 orbiter images interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from ~30 million km China’s Tianwen‑1 Mars orbiter used its high‑resolution camera to observe the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, the China National Space Administration said Nov. 6. The spacecraft was about 30 million kilometres from 3I/ATLAS during the observation, one of the closest probe sightings of the visitor.

2025-11-05T17:14:28.509739-08:00

Tianwen‑1 orbiter images interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from ~30 million km

European Spaceflight

Astronika passes key ramp test for ESA's Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover Poland’s Astronika has successfully tested the ramp mechanism that will deploy ESA’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover from its lander onto Mars’ surface, marking a critical hardware milestone for the mission’s surface operations and mobility capability ahead of final integration and launch preparations.

2025-11-05T07:31:29.221933-08:00

Astronika passes key ramp test for ESA's Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover

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Sun unleashes two X‑class flares, triggering radio blackouts across the Americas and Pacific Two back‑to‑back X‑class solar flares erupted as active sunspots turned to face Earth, producing radio blackouts across both hemispheres that knocked out shortwave communications across the Americas and much of the Pacific, briefly degrading HF radio links and ionospheric communications.

2025-11-05T05:11:51.518833-08:00

Sun unleashes two X‑class flares, triggering radio blackouts across the Americas and Pacific

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Roadmap: Coordinated Robotic Lunar Sample‑Return Campaign to Accelerate U.S. Exploration A new roadmap proposes a coordinated robotic lunar sample‑return campaign to accelerate U.S. lunar exploration by delivering prioritized science samples, establishing a sustainable mission cadence, and maturing operations in cislunar space that can inform and de‑risk subsequent missions.

2025-11-05T05:10:06.059064-08:00

Roadmap: Coordinated Robotic Lunar Sample‑Return Campaign to Accelerate U.S. Exploration

Space.com

AI restores sharpness to James Webb Space Telescope images, boosting science return An AI-driven image restoration technique has corrected blurring in James Webb Space Telescope observations, restoring fine detail and effectively increasing the telescope's scientific yield. The correction sharpens previously compromised data, enabling more precise analysis of distant galaxies and stellar nurseries.

2025-11-05T03:14:20.822218-08:00

AI restores sharpness to James Webb Space Telescope images, boosting science return

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JWST Spots “BiRD”: Massive red supermassive black hole in the early universe NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected an exceptionally red, massive supermassive black hole — nicknamed “BiRD” — in the early universe. The bright red point in JWST infrared imaging signals rapid, early black‑hole growth within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

2025-11-04T15:04:35.156620-08:00

JWST Spots “BiRD”: Massive red supermassive black hole in the early universe

Payload

Five years on: The Artemis Accords — a by‑the‑numbers roundup The Artemis Accords marked their fifth anniversary last month. This data‑driven roundup measures current signatory counts, core commitments and progress toward turning multilateral principles—transparency, interoperability and peaceful behaviour—into operational arrangements for lunar and deep‑space activities across signatory states and commercial partners.

2025-11-04T11:00:08.298859-08:00

Five years on: The Artemis Accords — a by‑the‑numbers roundup

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