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MISSION SUCCESS for Electron’s 70th launch and latest lift-off from LC-1!

❤️ Lived.
😄 Laughed.
🚀 Launched.
✅ Payload deployed.
August 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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As New Horizons marks its 10-year anniversary of the Pluto flyby, it’s a bittersweet milestone. The mission, which made headlines globally, now faces the threat of being shut down mid-flight due to proposed NASA budget cuts.

Learn about the Pluto flyby: www.planetary.org/articles/ten...
Ten years after Pluto, New Horizons faces a new threat
The newly proposed budget for NASA would shut down the spacecraft midflight.
www.planetary.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Today, we delivered a global petition with 20,787 names on it.

20,787 people from all fifty states and around the world raised their voices for NASA.

Thank you for adding your name.
Thank you for taking a stand to Save NASA Science.

📸 1: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
June 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science.
planet.ly/petition
June 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Pointy end up ⬆️ Testing is underway and close to completing qualification.

This Neutron assembly represents the top of Stage 1 and includes the hungry hippo reusable fairing, canards, and the extended interstage with some of the most complex mechanical systems that exist on the vehicle.
May 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Launch update 🚀 Electron is ready to fly its next mission for iQPS from Launch Complex 1 - our second of eight missions launching for the Japanese Earth-imaging constellation operator throughout 2025 and 2026.

'The Sea God Sees' is scheduled to launch NET May 17th. Full details: bit.ly/3xAxsql
May 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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We, along with a powerful coalition of science, industry, and advocacy groups, released a joint letter today urging congressional leaders to push back against potential cuts to space science. Read the letter and join us in standing up for space science: www.planetary.org/press-releas...
Science, industry, and advocacy groups unite in opposition to deep…
A coalition of leading space industry organizations, scientific societies, and public advocacy groups are submitting a joint letter to Congress opposing…
www.planetary.org
April 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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You sit on a throne of lies.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded?
“Let’s bring them home NOW, Sir!”…
arstechnica.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM