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Adam Thorn

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Journalist at Australian Aviation

Journalist at Momentum Media

Journalist, Mumbrella.

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Articles

  • Japanese regolith lander fails in moon mission

    2 days ago | spaceconnectonline.com.au | Adam Thorn

    A live feed provided by the private company ispace showed the spacecraft’s altitude suddenly falling to zero following an hour-long descent from lunar orbit. It later emerged that the lander, named Resilience, was likely able to come to a rest almost vertically, though communication was completely lost. At a news conference after the failure was confirmed, ispace’s CEO, Takeshi Hakamada, said, “We really wanted this mission to succeed, but we were unable to pull off the landing.

  • Regolith collecting lunar rover set to touch down

    3 days ago | spaceconnectonline.com.au | Adam Thorn

    The mission will be the second by private firm ispace and will likely be watched closely by Australian consortium ELO2, which is working on a similar project. ispace previously attempted to land on the lunar surface in 2023, but a suspected software problem in April 2023 led it to crash. “Since that time, we have drawn on the experience, using it as motivation to move forward with resolve,” said ispace’s CEO, Takeshi Hakamada.

  • Power surge blamed for Gilmour scrub

    4 days ago | spaceconnectonline.com.au | Adam Thorn

    In a LinkedIn update, the company stated that an internal investigation revealed the issue was caused by “electrical backfeed from downstream devices,” which hadn’t been noted previously. The fault ultimately triggered the deployment mechanism of the rocket’s payload fairing, also known as the carbon-fibre nose cone, which is designed to protect the payload during ascent.

  • Telstra wins race to launch ‘direct to cell’ satellite service

    5 days ago | spaceconnectonline.com.au | Adam Thorn

    On Tuesday, the company revealed that the service, initially available only for texting, has now begun for those with Samsung Galaxy S25 handsets, with a rollout to iPhone users set to follow soon. The news comes weeks after Space Connect reported Telstra had already sent 55,000 practice texts, including testing undertaken in remote areas outside of its traditional mobile coverage.

  • Trump withdraws pick for NASA Administrator

    6 days ago | spaceconnectonline.com.au | Adam Thorn

    President Trump gave no reason for his decision to pull Jared Isaacman’s nomination, but said in a social media post that the next leader of the space agency needed to be “mission aligned” and put “America first in space”. The news comes with Isaacman having previously hinted he was against proposed cuts to NASA’s budget, which the latest reports suggest could be as high as 25 per cent.

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