Spacecraft flew around globe for first time but contact was lost during final stages of test as it re-entered atmosphere
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Rotation of Eirsat-1, which is no bigger than a brick, righted by ground teams after being ejected from SpaceX rocket
Spacecraft is believed to have caught one of its landing feet on the uneven lunar surface and tipped over
Billionaire to shift a second business away from the state where his $56bn Tesla pay package was struck down
Moon lander could be first private private mission to land intact on lunar surface
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Eirsat-1 got a clean deployment from the SpaceX rocket that carried it into low orbit, California base reports
‘We are about to become a spacefaring nation,’ says UCD researcher
Dr David Murphy of the EIRSAT-1 team said the mission will bring Ireland’s space industry to new heights
Uncrewed spacecraft is presumed to have failed and self-destructed
Biographer Walter Isaacson spent two years embedded with the Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter boss as he researched his book
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US military opening up to defence and weapons start-ups as evolving technology begins to transform modern warfare
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