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March 24, 2025

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March 20, 2025

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NASA astronauts return from long Space Station stay prompted by Boeing problems

March 18, 2025

Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have returned to Earth after a nine-month stay on the International Space Station — 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 of…

A Google-backed weapon to battle wildfires made it into orbit

March 17, 2025

Google and Muon Space launch a new satellite to battle wildfires

March 17, 2025

SpaceX launches astronauts for long-awaited International Space Station crew swap

March 15, 2025

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’s Dragon spacecraft dock with the International Space Station (ISS)…

Jio announces deal to bring Starlink to India just hours after similar Airtel partnership

March 11, 2025

Musk’s Starlink to launch in India through Airtel

March 11, 2025

Eric Schmidt joins Relativity Space as CEO

March 10, 2025

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’s first CEO job since he left Google roughly 15 years ago. On Monday, Schmidt told employees of Relativity Space that he made a significant investment…

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March 10, 2025

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Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead

March 7, 2025

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several program and payload milestones” and deploy a few of the experiments that were riding shotgun before Athena’s lander ran out of juice. The…

SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure

March 6, 2025

SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. The company launched Starship using its Super Heavy booster and things looked normal for the first eight minutes of the…

A second Intuitive Machines spacecraft just landed on the moon — and probably tipped over

March 6, 2025

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’s spacecraft may have tipped on its side. The lunar lander, called Athena, touched down on the moon’s surface at around 12:30 p.m. ET…

Polish space agency says it’s investigating a cyberattack

March 4, 2025

Poland’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…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Final 24 hours to save up to $1,130

February 28, 2025

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Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez headed to space on Blue Origin mission

February 27, 2025

Jeff Bezos’ 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 popstar Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King. They will be joined by two scientists — Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen…

2025 TechCrunch Events Calendar

February 27, 2025

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Just 2 days left to save up to $1,130

February 27, 2025

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Lonestar and Phison’s data center infrastructure is headed to the moon

February 26, 2025

Data storage and resilience company Lonestar and semiconductor and storage company Phison launched a data center infrastructure on a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday that’s headed to the moon. The companies are sending Phison’s Pascari storage — solid state drives (SSDs) built for data centers —packed with Lonestar’s clients’ data on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…

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February 26, 2025

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Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business

February 25, 2025

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 UK-based startup that says its electric propulsion system for satellites will deliver a higher thrust in…

SpaceX says Starship self-destructed after propellant leaks caused fires and comms blackout

February 24, 2025

SpaceX said Monday that last month’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)…

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February 21, 2025

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Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft

February 19, 2025

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…

Blue Origin cuts 10% of staff one month after first successful New Glenn launch

February 13, 2025

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…

Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes

February 4, 2025

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. But when they…

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February 3, 2025

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January 31, 2025

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January 29, 2025

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January 27, 2025

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January 24, 2025

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Spacetech Voyager is aiming for a multi-billion valuation IPO

January 23, 2025

Y Combinator grad Spaceium raises oversubscribed $6.3M for space re-fueling

January 23, 2025

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January 22, 2025

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SpaceX and Blue Origin must investigate this week’s big rocket tests, FAA says

January 17, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective mega-rocket test flights this week. The regulator said both companies must perform what’s known as a “mishap investigation.” These probes involve the companies and the FAA working together to understand what went wrong,…

FAA had to divert flights because of SpaceX Starship explosion

January 16, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration has told TechCrunch that it had to “briefly” slow and divert a number of aircraft near the area where debris was seen falling after SpaceX’s Starship exploded during a test flight Thursday. Multiple flights could be seen entering holding patterns or completely changing course in the airspace near Puerto Rico shortly…

SpaceX catches Starship booster a second time, loses ship to an ‘anomaly’ in space

January 16, 2025

SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. Soon after the successful catch, SpaceX representatives reported the ship was lost after the company lost contact about eight and half minutes into the flight.…

Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into space

January 16, 2025

Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin launched its new mega-rocket, called New Glenn, into orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted off at 2:03AM ET on January 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and crossed the official boundary into space a few minutes later. Shortly after, a second-stage burn placed the rocket’s upper section into…

Reusable rocket startup Stoke raised another massive round: $260M

January 15, 2025

Loft Orbital lands a fresh $170 million after logging over $500 million of bookings

January 15, 2025

Flights delayed by SpaceX’s falling rocket debris

January 14, 2025

Qantas has been forced to delay several flights to South Africa due to last minute warnings about SpaceX rocket debris falling from the sky. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Google-backed Pixxel launches India’s first private satellite constellation

January 14, 2025

Pixxel, an Indian space tech startup backed by Google, has successfully launched the first three hyperspectral satellites of its commercial constellation Firefly. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Blue Origin delays launch of New Glenn mega-rocket

January 13, 2025

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin postponed the inaugural launch of its first orbital rocket, New Glenn, early Monday morning after experiencing an unspecified issue with one of the vehicle’s subsystems. While delays like this happen all the time in spaceflight, this one once again puts the timing of the much-anticipated launch in question. According…

Toyota is ‘exploring rockets’ and has made its first investment into Interstellar Technologies

January 6, 2025

Japanese automaker Toyota is “exploring rockets,” chairman Akio Toyoda announced on stage at CES 2025 on Monday, while hinting at the idea of moving people through space. The rocketry mention on the CES 2025 stage came while Toyoda was in the middle of explaining how he views his company’s myriad technologies as “invention by kakezan,”…

Toyota is ‘exploring rockets’

January 6, 2025

Japanese automaker Toyota is “exploring rockets,” chairman Akio Toyoda just announced on stage at CES 2025, while hinting at the idea of moving people through space. Toyoda did not offer any details explaining what he meant. But he showed a rendering on stage of a rocket designed by Interstellar Technologies, a private Japanese spaceflight company…

Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice steps down, CNBC reports

January 6, 2025

Tom Vice, the CEO of private space technologies company Sierra Space, has left the company, according to a CNBC report. Vice held the position for three and a half years, overseeing the VC-backed company’s $290 million fundraise at a $5.3 billion valuation in 2023 and securement of a military satellite contract in early 2024. Despite…

TechCrunch Space: New year, new milestones

January 6, 2025

Hi, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Happy New Year! And…surprise!: This will be the last edition of TechCrunch Space for the foreseeable future. I know, it’s a bummer. But fear not: We’ll still be reporting on space startups, so I hope you’ll stay tuned. And there will certainly be a lot to cover. This…

New ship, new year: SpaceX to deploy model Starlink satellites on next Starship launch

January 3, 2025

SpaceX is significantly upping the ante of its Starship test flight program, with the next rocket launch expected to demonstrate payload deployment for the first time. The payload in question will be 10 Starlink “simulators” that will be similar in size and weight to the next-gen satellites SpaceX plans to use Starship to deploy in…

Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund

January 1, 2025

Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek at an internal SpaceX document about such a tender offer from May 2022. Musk posted on X last month that SpaceX holds such sales for employees about…

Blue Origin looks to take on SpaceX dominance with New Glenn launch days away

December 30, 2024

Nearly a quarter century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is gearing up to launch an orbital rocket for the first time — and finally enter the competitive launch industry that is currently dominated by SpaceX. Company executives have maintained that they are planning to launch the towering rocket, called New Glenn, before the…

Revisiting the biggest moments in the space industry in 2024

December 28, 2024

We are at the dawn of a new space age. If you doubt, simply look back at the last year: From SpaceX’s historic catch of the Super Heavy booster to the record-breaking number of lunar landing attempts, this year was full of historic and ambitious missions and demonstrations. We’re taking a look back at the…

K2 Space will fly its extra-large satellite for the first time in 2026

December 19, 2024

K2 Space is betting that the future of the space hardware will be big — really big. The startup is building massive spacecraft under the assumption that launch costs will continue to drop as SpaceX’s Starship and other heavy-lift vehicles come online. It looks like the Space Force is taking up their side of that…

SpaceX gets green light for seventh Starship mission

December 18, 2024

Regulators have given SpaceX the go-ahead to launch Starship for the seventh time, although the company has not yet announced when that mission may take place. While the exact launch date is unclear, SpaceX engineers have been as busy as ever at the company’s massive launch site near Boca Chica, Texas. In recent days, the…

TechCrunch Space: Sayonara

December 16, 2024

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. This will be the final TechCrunch Space newsletter you receive in 2024, so to all our readers, have a wonderful holiday and see you next year. There’s a lot to look forward to next year. I expect to see much more progress from SpaceX on Starship, big changes…

EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Musk’s Starlink

December 16, 2024

The European Union is forging ahead with plans for a constellation of internet satellites to rival Elon Musk-owned Starlink, after signing a €10.6 billion ($11.1B) deal to launch nearly 300 satellites into low- and medium-Earth orbits by 2030. The bloc wants the space tech to boost its digital sovereignty by providing secure comms to governments.…

Fleet Space raises $100M to scale satellite-enabled mineral prospecting tech

December 12, 2024

Late-stage deals in space have been on the decline this year, but one notable exception is Fleet Space Technologies’ $100 million Series D. The Adelaide, Australia-based startup raised the new funding to accelerate the development of ExoSphere, a platform to enable real-time mineral prospecting from space. The company currently has two satellites in low Earth…

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