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☆ VIPER moon rover: Inside the scramble to save NASA’s canceled lunar vehicle
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

And the availability of the VIPER spacecraft piqued the company’s interest for future projects, Intuitive Machines told CNN. To get reach that goal, Intuitive Machines will likely have to dip into its own funds to complete VIPER’s finishing touches before liftoff. The Simulated Lunar Operations Lab at NASA Glenn Research Center tested planetary roving vehicle systems and components for vehicles such as the VIPER Rover. The Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander (pictured here in a rendering) is now slated to take off no earlier than late 2025. The lunar lander was designed to carry NASA’s VIPER rover as its main payload.

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☆ 6 top Goldman dealmakers, from Dan Dees to Gene Sykes, reflect on their careers at the investment bank, from junior banker to partner
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Wall Street careers are notoriously grueling and littered with politicking and jockeying to climb the ranks. AdvertisementNow, these six partners are looking back on their own rise, offering words of wisdom from their own Wall Street origin stories. At Goldman Sachs, the core of who we are in investment banking is M&A. Gene Sykes, cochairman of global M&A and global TMT:Gene Sykes Courtesy of Goldman SachsThe market for M&A advice has evolved over time. Are you a Goldman Sachs or Wall Street insider?

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☆ With signs of an M&A comeback, Goldman Sachs' bankers are raring to win. Do they still have what it takes following a raft of partner exits?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

AdvertisementDavid Solomon Goldman SachsPressure-cooker cultureWith signs suggesting mergers and acquisitions could soon return — including the megadeals Goldman specializes in — the firm's dealmakers are itching to end 2024 on a high note. In M&A, Goldman has fallen to No. AdvertisementMark Sorrell Goldman SachsGoldman is also seeking to become more interconnected across its business lines via the One Goldman Sachs program. "They figure that if they're talking to one person at Goldman Sachs, they're talking to everybody." The result, bankers said, is an M&A machine built to withstand threats like star dealmakers leaving for more-nimble rivals.

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Astrobotic Technology said contact and then tracking was lost as its lunar lander reentered Earth's atmosphere Thursday, 10 days after launching from Florida. It was the first U.S. lunar lander in more than a half-century. Right before Friday’s U.S. news conference, a lunar lander from Japan touched down on the moon, but it was unable to generate crucial solar power. The U.S., Russia, China and India have successfully landed spacecraft on the moon and only the U.S. has landed astronauts. Flight controllers were able to turn on some experiments and collect data,The company is already is working on an even bigger lunar lander that will carry NASA's Viper rover to the moon in a year.

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☆ After Peregrine failed to land on the moon, Astrobotic still plans to launch another lunar lander in November
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

This month, Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander failed to reach the moon due to a fuel leak. Despite the setback, Astrobotic plans to launch a second lunar lander in November. AdvertisementEarlier this month, the space company Astrobotic launched its Peregrine mission toward the moon, but the spacecraft never made it and ultimately burned up in Earth's atmosphere. During Astrobotic's first press conference since its failed Peregrine mission, the company's CEO, John Thornton, said Astrobotic is more excited than ever to attempt to send another lunar lander to the moon. AdvertisementAn illustration showing Astrobotic's Griffin moon-landing system deploying NASA's VIPER ice-hunting robot to the lunar surface.

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☆ The doomed US moon lander is on a collision course with Earth and will be destroyed to protect other satellites
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe doomed US lunar lander is on a collision course with Earth and will be destroyed early to protect other satellites that may get in its way. "Our latest assessment now shows the spacecraft is on a path towards Earth, where it will likely burn up in Earth's atmosphere," Astrobotic, the company behind the Peregrine lander, said on Saturday. AdvertisementA ULA Vulcan rocket launches into space on Monday, carrying the Peregrine Mission One lunar lander. This is standard practice when decommissioning a ship orbiting the Earth and Astrobotic expects this will not pose a safety risk. The Peregrine lander aboard the Centaur Vulcan rocket ahead of launch.

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☆ Peregrine lunar lander to make fiery reentry after failed misison
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

For the vast majority of the mission, the Peregrine lander has been controlled solely by its attitude control thrusters, which are tiny engines mounted to the side of the lander and designed to maintain stability or make precision movements. What Peregrine could and couldn’t accomplishAstrobotic was able to power on some of the science instruments and other payloads on board the lander. The Peregrine lander was also able to activate a new sensor, developed by NASA, that was designed to help the spacecraft land on the moon. Likewise, an array of other payloads designed specifically to operate on the moon remain trapped aboard the Peregrine lander. The Peregrine spacecraft is also carrying various mementos, letters and even human remains that customers paid to fly on the mission.

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☆ The first US moon lander in more than 50 years launched with human remains on board, paving the way for space burials
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-08 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewA US spacecraft carrying human remains launched on Monday in a bid to become the first private mission to land on the moon. "Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion system is causing a critical loss of propellant," the company that built the lunar lander, Astrobotic, said in an update Monday afternoon. AstroboticSeveral capsules on board the lander are part of a memorial service offered by private companies Celestis and Elysium Space. The screenwriter was also part of the first human "space burial" in 1992 when his ashes were put aboard NASA's spacecraft Columbia. Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One is the first of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)-backed missions to launch.

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☆ Gold miner unearths risky M&A seam
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Antony Currie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

That’s precisely what Newmont (NEM.N) boss Tom Palmer has just done, offering $17 billion in stock for Australian gold excavator Newcrest Mining (NCM.AX). At present Newmont is offering a 22% premium to the target’s undisturbed share price, after Newcrest rejected an earlier 17% boost. What Canada’s Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) does in response is the main question. It is the world’s largest gold miner, which at $40 billion sports a market capitalisation 25% higher than Barrick’s. Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM.TO), the $24 billion third-largest miner of the ore, may want to dig in, too.

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