News Summary

• Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul.
• American outfit Varda Space Industries thinks it's a little closer to operating factories in space after successfully landing its latest test craft.
• The W-6 landed at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia, whose operator Southern Launch celebrated the fact this is the fourth capsule to land in the patch of remote bushland it tends in the last twelve months.
• It also carried one nose tile that included samples of advanced thermal protection materials, another two tiles equipped with sensors to record data NASA will use to learn about hypersonic re-entry and the materials that make it possible.