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Third Varda Space mission ends with Australian landing
Posted: Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:12 AM ET (1312 GMT)
The third mission by Varda Space Industries concluded with a reentry Wednesday. The capsule from the W-3 mission successfully landed in the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. The spacecraft launched two months ago and carried an inertial measurement unit (IMU) developed for the U.S. Air Force by Innovative Scientific Solutions Incorporated to collect data in the hypersonic phases of reentry. The W-3 mission landed two and a half months after the previous mission, W-2, also landed in Australia.
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