Another team has entered NASA’s moon buggy competition and once again it includes automotive horsepower—Teledyne Brown Engineering announced April 6 that it is leading a team with Sierra Space, Nissan North America and Textron Arctic Cat to design the crewed Lunar Terrain Vehicle.

NASA could be too hands-off in its oversight of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, an audit from the agency’s inspector general says.

Airbus, the prime contractor for the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe, has started a series of critical tests on the spacecraft due for launch in April 2023.

The Blue Origin and Sierra Space-led consortium developing the Orbital Reef commercial space station says it is on track to conduct the preliminary design review of the low Earth orbit outpost in 2023 following completion of the systems requirements review.

The funds will be siphoned into development of the three critical technologies underlying its business case: a new rocket engine, the aircraft shape and leading-edge cooling. 

The U.S. Space Force needs to transform how it can serve what Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says is a “no-fail” mission in light of recent tests by both China and Russia.

NASA is looking beyond the planned April 8 launch of Axiom Space’s Ax-1 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to resume the Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) at Kennedy Space Center, which has been scrubbed twice so far this week due to issues with the Mobile Launch Platform.

As Russian forces began to substantially build up on the border with Ukraine, the U.S. intelligence community went to commercial satellite imagery providers with a favor to ask.