NASA is preparing to return the Space Launch System Moon rocket and Orion capsule to the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 25, following a pair of abbreviated tanking tests at the launchpad.
NASA has a strategy to secure the second of two circular solar arrays that failed to fully deploy and latch following the launch of the $989 million Lucy mission.
A prolonged, privately financed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ended on April 25 with the return of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space.
The four-member Axiom-1 private astronaut mission departed the International Space Station on April 24, ending the first U.S.-backed commercial flight to the orbital outpost and clearing the docking port for the arrival of the next ISS resident crew later this week.
Dr. Bernard A. Harris, a retired NASA astronaut and flight surgeon and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk, has been inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.
Just under two years after joining Aerojet Rocketdyne as chief operating officer (COO), Amy Gowder is leaving the embattled rocket and propulsion supplier “to accept another business opportunity.”
Planet Labs has unveiled its next constellation of 32 Earth observation satellites, the Pelican fleet, which will provide images with up to 30 cm of resolution and improved revisit rates.
Weather concerns off the Florida coast have prompted new delays in the planned return to Earth of Axiom-1 from the International Space Station and the follow-on launch of NASA’s Crew-4 SpaceX Dragon Freedom to the ISS, NASA and Axiom Space announced late April 20.
NASA selected six U.S. satellite communications providers on April 20 to develop and demonstrate near-Earth space communication services to support future agency missions as part of the Communications Services Project.
Astrobotic unveiled the flight model of its Peregrine lunar lander on April 20, the version that is scheduled to fly to the Moon in the fourth quarter of 2022 on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Long-held U.S. Defense Department vision for rapid space launch capability could edge closer to reality with Air Force Research Laboratory demonstration.
Venturi Astrolab, which last month unveiled its Flex rover family for manned Moon and Mars missions, is buying certain technologies from European electric vehicle maker Venturi Group, with which it has a “strategic partnership” and a shared name.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine wants NASA to make greater investments in missions to study the plausibility of current life on Mars, the mysteries of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and advanced strategies for defending the Earth from potential asteroid impacts.
The U.S. will not conduct any anti-satellite direct-ascent missile tests, Vice President Kamala Harris said April 18, calling on other nations to also refrain from the activity to avoid the expansion of space debris in orbit.
Boryung Pharmaceutical, Starburst and Axiom Space have launched a “Care in Space Challenge,” an annual competition with a $1 million shared prize to find next-generation pharmaceutical, bioscience and medical technologies to be developed in space.
Spacewalking cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev equipped the European Space Agency’s 37-ft.-long robot arm with a control panel during an April 18 spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space have delayed the undocking of Axiom-1, the first U.S. private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, from April 19 to April 20 at the earliest.
Space manufacturing and services provider Redwire, which recently became a publicly traded company, could raise up to $80 million in new funds via additional stock issuance.
