Reuters
• Kantaro Komiya
Space One's Kairos small rocket self-destructed 69 seconds after liftoff on Thursday, marking the third consecutive failure to place a commercial payload and delaying Japan's bid for its first entirely commercial orbital launch. The setback raises questions about readiness of the domestic small-launch sector.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: European space startup AIRMO closed a €5M ($5.8M) seed round to launch its first greenhouse-gas-monitoring satellite no earlier than next year, and to expand its drone and airplane monitoring into the Middle East market.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: "Mission success! Alpha Flight 7 achieved nominal performance and validated key systems ahead of our Block II configuration upgrade.".
SpaceNews.com
SpaceNews.com
By SpaceNews.com: The Post-Capacity Era of Satellite Connectivity.
NASA Spaceflight
• Eleanor Day
By NASA Spaceflight: Following the early departure of Crew-11 in mid-January due to a medical concern, the International….
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: Satellite operator SES said a missile “targeted and struck” its teleport facility in Israel March 9 as tensions spill across the region amid ongoing Israeli and U.S.
Reuters
By Reuters: The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission dismissed criticism from Amazon.com of Elon Musk's SpaceX plan to launch a constellation of up to 1 million satellites.
Space.com
• Robert Lea
By Space.com: "This is convincing proof that not all neutron star–black hole pairs share the same origin.".
SpaceNews.com
• Amadi Brians Chinonso
