Z-01 – Spaceflight Now

March 24, 2023

Breaking News

[ March 24, 2023 ] Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellites from New Zealand Mission Reports
[ March 24, 2023 ] Live coverage: SpaceX launches 56 more Starlink internet satellites Falcon 9
[ March 23, 2023 ] SpaceX pausing launches of new-generation Starlink satellites Falcon 9
[ March 22, 2023 ] Relativity’s 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket reaches space, but falls short of orbit Mission Reports
[ March 22, 2023 ] Penultimate Delta rocket to launch next month on ULA’s first mission of 2023 Delta 4

NASA terminates lunar lander contract with OrbitBeyond

July 30, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA has terminated a $97 million contract with OrbitBeyond, a New Jersey-based company with plans to build robotic moon landers in Florida, just two months after announcing an agreement to send science instruments to the lunar surface as soon as next year.

NASA picks three companies to send commercial landers to the moon

June 4, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA has announced that Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond won contracts to deliver science instruments and technology demonstration payloads to the moon’s surface in the first of a series of robotic missions preceding a human return to the moon.