NASA
NASA is helping Japan's JAXA send a spacecraft to Mars' moons, because after decades of looking at Phobos and Deimos we still can't agree on what they actually are.
NASA
NASA's XRISM observatory watched a neutron star steal a giant blue star's wind and turn it into X-ray flares, proving even cosmic objects can't resist a free meal.
Ars Technica
Satellite servicing company Astroscale bets on a rocket that just reached orbit for the first time, because apparently that's what passes for 'proven' these days.
Ars Technica
After eight years, a $2B spacecraft finally drops its propulsion module and gets ready to orbit Mercury - because the hardest part was getting there, not the science.
ScienceDaily
A single asteroid smack may explain Deimos's crater and dusty coat - just in time for JAXA's MMX mission to go poke around.
TechCrunch
Japanese startup Letara raises $16M to expand from satellite thrusters to full-blown hybrid rockets, using plastic and rubber as fuel - because why not turn trash into thrust?
SpaceNews
Japan's H3 rocket successfully launches a navigation satellite, proving that persistence pays off - and that typhoons can't stop progress, just delay it.
SpaceNews
Singapore's space agency signs its first deal with Japan, vowing to build a satellite-focused industry while acknowledging it can't do rockets.
Ars Technica
Japan's Hayabusa2 and China's Tianwen-2 both had asteroid flybys this weekend, because apparently space rocks are the new fireworks.
SpaceNews
Japan's H3 rocket successfully launches six satellites after previous failure involved a satellite falling off, proving that persistence pays off in rocketry.
SpaceNews
ESA and JAXA sign a deal to study an asteroid that will buzz Earth in 2029, because nothing brings humanity together like a big space rock that definitely, probably won't kill us.
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