Space News: Lunar Landers, Starcloud (previously Lumen Orbit), Gilmour Space & Varda Space

In this week’s space news we cover the wave of landers heading towards the Moon. Our second story is about Starcloud, a company building data centres in space. Third, we have an update from Gilmour Space, the Australian launch provider. And, lastly, we cover Varda Space and the end of their W-2 mission.

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Wave of Landers Heading Towards the Moon
00:36 Firefly's Blue Ghost
01:48 Intuitive Machines IM-2 (”Athena”)
03:43 iSpace (”RESILIENCE”)
04:53 Lumen Orbit renames to Starcloud and raises $10 million
06:12 Gilmour Space Targets Mid-March for Australia’s Orbital Rocket
07:53 Varda Space’s 2nd Re-entry Capsule Lands in Australia
08:58 Outro

Sources:

Live Moon Landing Broadcast (2nd March): https://www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1AUJAY?si=O_4wXtce4kSJB8Ss

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1: https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

Intuitive Machines IM-2 Mission: https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2

AstroForge: https://www.astroforge.com

Starcloud (previously Lumen Orbit): https://www.starcloud.com/

Varda Space: https://www.varda.com