April 3, 2025 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Smallsat startup True Anomaly touts its new “Jackal spacecraft for GEO and Cislunar space”
The company is angling for defense work.
- Vast signs deal with NASA’s Glenn center to do environmental testing of its Haven-1 manned space station
This testing is set for early ’26, which makes for a very tight schedule to meet the present May ’26 launch date.
- SpaceX completes static fire test of Superheavy booster recovered from the seventh test flight
The tweet says this booster could very well be reused on test flight 9, the next planned test flight.
- Kongsberg to deliver 280 microsatellites to SpinLaunch’s LEO satellite communication constellation
My readers might remember SpinLaunch as the startup aiming to put payloads into orbit by spinning them to high speeds and then releasing them. They did some tests, got some investment capital, and then apparently switched focus to satellite communications.
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Smallsat startup True Anomaly touts its new “Jackal spacecraft for GEO and Cislunar space”
The company is angling for defense work.
- Vast signs deal with NASA’s Glenn center to do environmental testing of its Haven-1 manned space station
This testing is set for early ’26, which makes for a very tight schedule to meet the present May ’26 launch date.
- SpaceX completes static fire test of Superheavy booster recovered from the seventh test flight
The tweet says this booster could very well be reused on test flight 9, the next planned test flight.
- Kongsberg to deliver 280 microsatellites to SpinLaunch’s LEO satellite communication constellation
My readers might remember SpinLaunch as the startup aiming to put payloads into orbit by spinning them to high speeds and then releasing them. They did some tests, got some investment capital, and then apparently switched focus to satellite communications.