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Axiom Space’s first all-European private astronaut mission crew sent to the International Space Station was preparing to end a 14-day stay on the ISS on Feb. 2.

Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut have been selected for the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon mission launch to the ISS, planned for no earlier than August.

The Pentagon has approached SpaceX about potentially taking over Starship for sensitive and potentially dangerous missions.

The U.S. Space Force is deep in planning for Rocket Cargo operations.

When astronauts land on the Moon, will taikonauts be there to greet them?

Impulse Space has unveiled additional details about its Helios kick stage, which is scheduled for a demonstration launch mission in early 2026.

A record 223 orbital-class rockets lifted off last year, a 20% hike over 2022.

SpaceX opened its 2024 launch manifest on Jan. 2 with a Falcon 9 mission to continue building its Starlink satellite constellation.

Led by SpaceX, the number of orbital launch attempts last year rose by 20% over 2022.

NASA believes it can leverage commercial service industries for deep-space exploration.

Recovery operations were underway after the successful Dec. 22 splashdown of the 29th NASA-contracted SpaceX Crew Dragon resupply mission.

An orbital propellant depot and fueling service are keys to the Starship lunar lander architecture.

In 2024, India and Boeing aim for low Earth orbit, while NASA eyes an excursion around the Moon.

As hardware prices come down, Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to connect “tens of millions of customers.”

Velo3D, a maker of additive manufacturing machinery for SpaceX and other aerospace and defense customers, has ousted its founding chief executive.

The service is adding a new approach to launch contracting, as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture takes shape.

NASA has offered a preview of Sierra Space’s reusable Dream Chaser resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station planned for 2024.

Axiom Space is looking at Jan. 9 for the launch of its third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

True Anomaly, a startup developing spacecraft for space domain awareness missions, has raised $100 million in a Series B round of funding.

Space launch activity reached an all-time high in 2023, but public new-space company valuations remain pressured.

NASA is unlikely to return astronauts to the Moon’s surface by December 2025 with its Artemis III mission, a GAO audit says.

Major technical risks were retired by the performance of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket.

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

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been named the third crew member for the first operational mission of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner to the ISS.

GPS has become a household term over the last 50 years. Over the coming decades, it is likely to be subsumed into another three-letter term, PNT.