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ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher says at a press briefing that controllers have just managed to restore contact with the Proba-3 coronagraph spacecraft, which had been out of contact since last month. Recovery efforts underway.

$VOYG: "I fully anticipate there will be a Starlab #2" "I fully anticipate, especially in a situation where we have a 100% of our commercial demand spoken for, I fully anticipate there'll be a Starlab two, Starlab three, Starlab four, probably special purpose Starlabs." -Dylan Taylor, CEO of Voyager

You ever just sit back and think about how some of the first satellites ever launched are still up there?

🚀 #OTD 3/18/1965: Alexei Leonov made history with the first human #spacewalk during the USSR's Voskhod 2 mission - marking a major milestone for humans in #space: newscientist.com/definition/fir… #spaceexploration #EVA #Voshkod2

A full-scale model of @NASA’s Parker Solar Probe - the spacecraft that flew faster and closer to the Sun than any human-made object - is now on display at the @Smithsonian Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. jhuapl.link/b5d @NASASolarSystem

Apollo 15 Lunar Rover Footage Upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS Incredible upscaled footage from onboard the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC camera. This footage has been upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronised to the mission audio by Moonpans Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal Full video in comments

SwRI in the news: Rare Interstellar Comet Opens New Clues as Skywatching Faces a Growing Strain ow.ly/LHsu50YvTf8

The House Science Committee's space subcommittee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on "The Future of Low Earth Orbit: From the ISS to Commercial Platforms". science.house.gov/2026/3/space-a…

Voyager successfully supported multiple customer payloads aboard the @SpaceStation as part of @SpaceX’s 33rd cargo resupply mission. The investigations ranged from biotechnology research to advanced materials and commercial technology demonstrations, with customers including@noblis_inc, SpacePharma and the @uidaho.​ With on-orbit operations complete, Voyager is now processing returned hardware and data to deliver final results to customers. The mission reflects growing demand for reliable access to microgravity research and Voyager’s end-to-end mission management capabilities from launch through return.​ $VOYG #missionready

Great things happening in space. Key theme going forward is convergence. Space is where biotechnology, advanced materials sciences, robotics and data sciences are all pushing their boundaries. And mutually reinforcing each other. We go to space to protect what's important, and push what is possible. Never stop dreaming. Never stop building. $VOYG

Alexei Leonov famously took man's first spacewalk today in 1965.

This reveals much in detail and in overview. E.g., in weeks NASA will have further public presentations on paths forward. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on future Moon missions, lunar landers, nuclear propulsion & more - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=q_Y0qU…

Lots of people believe the Apollo Lunar Module was a tiny flimsy little thing, this image really shows how big it actually is... Nasa

ispace-U.S. is in Houston this week for #LPSC2026! Thank you to those who joined a panel discussion this morning, where our Senior Business Development Manager, Dallas Schray, highlighted ispace's global footprint, its contributions to @NASA's #CLPS initiative, and to the lunar science community. Stay tuned for our upcoming presentation delivered by our CEO, Elizabeth Kryst, tomorrow at 5:30 PM (CDT) at the Waterway Ballrooms 4/5. 🔗hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2… #ispace #ispaceUS #LunarScience #LunarExploration

NASA Reassessing Artemis II Rollout as Ground Teams Make Up Time nasa.gov/blogs/missions… Due to quicker than expected completion of close-out activities, #NASA now may roll out the Artemis II rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B, on Thursday, March 19. A final decision on start time will be made on Wednesday, March 18.

Voyager was awarded a multi-million-dollar contract under @NASA’s ELVIS 3 program.​ The work continues our support to NASA’s Launch Services Program at @NASAKennedy, helping prepare launch vehicles and spacecraft for upcoming science and exploration missions.​ ​ Learn more here: tinyurl.com/mrcap5fm​ ​ $VOYG #missionready

Our team is putting the VantageStar star tracker through its paces, testing against launch-level vibrations to ensure precision guidance in space. Built in the U.S., radiation-tolerant, and NDAA-compliant, VantageStar is ready to track the stars from LEO to GEO and beyond.​ ​ Learn more about VantageStar: voyagertechnologies.com/vantage/​ $VOYG #missionready

$VOYG: Starlab is on track for a 2029 launch aboard Starship. At steady state, it’s targeting ~$4B in annual revenue and ~$1.5B in free cash flow. This is NOT priced in.

Yesterday marked the 100-year anniversary of the first ever launch of a liquid fueled rocket in 1926 — less than 23 years after the Wright Brothers first achieved air flight in 1903. American rocket engineer Dr. Robert Goddard was ridiculed in his time and failed miserably in raising money to pursue his dream of space flight (except for some small grants from the Smithsonian Institution and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others). When Dr. Goddard died in 1945, he knew his ideas had been validated with the German V-2’s first suborbital spaceflight in 1944 and had gotten the attention of the US government. He had good reason to believe the technology was on track to eventually achieve interplanetary range. However, Goddard had no way of knowing that the Soviet and American space programs would both rapidly draw on his work to place the first satellites in orbit (within 12 years of his death), the first humans in space (within 16 years), the first men on the Moon (within 24 years), and the first machines on other planets (within 25 years). As Newton once remarked, we stand on the shoulders of giants. We owe the technology of our present day and the opportunity to build upon it in our own time in large part to the innovation and ingenuity of prior generations. Notably, Goddard’s liquid-fueled rocket revolution — which began as a private effort in the 1920s (requiring no permission of government) and came to be the exclusive domain of superpowers starting in the 1940s — has come full circle in the decades since. The world’s most advanced and scalable rockets are once again built and operated by private interests; but now they fly to space in large volumes, reinventing the infrastructure of our planetary scale civilization as we prepare to spread out across our solar system. nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…

#OTD in 1958, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory successfully launched Vanguard 1. It was the world's first solar-powered satellite and the second U.S. satellite to orbit the Earth.