India’s much-anticipated second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, is preparing for launch in mid-July, with the lander expected to touch down in early September.

Contrary to India’s predictions, debris from the country’s intentional destruction of its Microsat-R spacecraft six weeks ago has not re-entered.

The investigation into the April 20 explosion is still ongoing, but so far appears to have exonerated the SuperDraco engines needed to fly a Dragon capsule to safety in case of a problem during ascent, SpaceX says.

As NASA looks to step up its detection of potentially dangerous Near Earth Objects, it is working on a dedicated deep-space observatory first proposed more than a dozen years ago.

NASA is delaying the planned May 1 launch of a SpaceX cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) to troubleshoot a problem with the station’s electrical system.

The first test flight of a privately developed Chinese reusable space launcher hurled an experimental hypersonic waverider vehicle to a speed faster than 2,800 mph on April 23.

A directive that accelerates NASA’s plans to return to the Moon’s surface with humans from 2024-2028 has also created an urgency that it return first with rovers.

A test of abort thrusters destroyed the capsule that had returned from an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station.