Tag: Space Exploration

Figure 1: Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander (bronze, top) and its rideshare payloads are shown inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing prior to launch spaceflightnow.com. AstroForge’s Brokkr‑2 spacecraft (renamed Odin, gold box at bottom center) was attached beneath Athena for this flight. Odin’s mission was to fly by a near-Earth asteroid to scout its composition, specifically to confirm…
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Blue Origin is a private aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, with a mission to enable commercial human space travel. Its New Shepard suborbital rocket has been conducting crewed tourist flights since 2021, and its New Glenn heavy orbital rocket made its first successful launch in January 2025 en.wikipedia.org. These activities have generated…
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