Airbus and partners aim to stimulate tech development for sustainable lunar exploration and development with a new international competition called The Moon Race.

For Arianespace, the mission is a milestone, since it is the 100th launch of an Ariane 5 since its inception in 1996. The two satellites are the 206th and 207th launched by the heavy-lift vehicle.

Two Japanese mini-rovers touched down on the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu early Sept. 22 and are in motion and transmitting imagery.

Air launch space company Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled study plans for a pair of hypersonic flying testbeds that could be launched from the company’s very large carrier aircraft.

The first five years of the Space Force is estimated to cost $12.9 billion, according to a Sept. 14 report included in a letter from Wilson obtained by Aerospace DAILY.

Marks the 155th and final mission for the booster that helped put the U.S. back into the space business after the 1986 Challenger accident.

Details of the SpaceX passenger flight will be announced on Sept. 17, CEO Elon Musk said Sept. 13.

The imminent restart of manned spaceflights from U.S. soil raises questions for Europe, Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel said.