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The company suggests leveraging NASA’s deep investment in the SLS may be just the ticket to bring back samples from Mars.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

AST SpaceMobile has signed a commercial agreement with AT&T to provide satellite-based cellular service to the company’s customers.

With former partner Russia out of the picture, the European Space Agency-led ExoMars rover mission is firming up its partnership with NASA.

The first of the two Prefire satellites is planned for launch on May 22.

NASA’s long-serving McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 research aircraft flew for the final time on May 15 after being used on 158 science campaigns.

Terran Orbital’s revenue fell 3% to $27.2 million for the period ended March 31, it disclosed in a financial filing with the SEC on May 14.

Enthusiasm for the scientific potential of a NASA-led Mars Sample Return mission is continuing.

The mission, designated NROL-146, is targeted for launch on May 19 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flying from Vandenberg SFB in California.

The leak was noted during Starliner’s initial launch attempt on May 6.

Maneuvers of Russian spacecraft around France's satellites means Paris urgently needs patrol spacecraft, the French Air and Space Force space commander says.

An electrical engineer and one of the Turkish Space Agency’s first two astronauts, Atasever will participate in three flight experiments.

An Ion Beam Deflection mission could demonstrate a new low-thrust concept to counter so-called "rubble pile" asteroids.

SpaceX’s plan to launch its Starship-Super Heavy reusable Mars-class space transport from KSC will require a full environmental impact statement, the FAA said.

Designed with mobility in mind, the SpaceX Crew Dragon pressure suits have been upgraded for extravehicular activities.

Redwire has unveiled a very-low-Earth-orbit spacecraft called Phantom that is being developed for the European Space Agency’s Skimsat demonstrator program,

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser lifting body spaceplane "Tenacity" and its Shooting Star cargo module are being readied for shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

An IMAX camera recorded astronauts repairing the attitude control system of NASA’s Solar Maximum satellite, which space shuttle Challenger captured for the repair.

Ex-NASA exec says the technical and cost challenges of a Mars Sample Return mission could be addressed with a single launch using the Space Launch System.

Xona Space Systems has raised $19 million in a Series A funding round to speed up deployment of its commercial global navigation satellite system.

The service modules for NASA’s first six Artemis Moon-mission Orion crew capsules are relying on propulsion from refurbished Orbital Maneuvering Systems.

Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic is eyeing a 2028 entry-into-service for its next new mothership.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will remain at Kennedy Space Center while ULA repairs their ride to space, the first Atlas V to launch crew.

China has completed the first launch of the Long March 6C rocket, a new variant of the Long March 6A rocket.

A fully costed, decade-long spending plan from the Australian Defense Department lays out its priorities in the coming years.