Artemis III

Team wants data on S4 dynamics in simulated lunar space.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will pass the one-year mark in space on Sept. 21. His return to Earth is set for Sept. 27.

Intuitive Machines is aiming for a Nov. 15 launch of the agency initiative’s first Artemis-era Moon landing.

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

SpaceX and NASA are meeting to discuss options for Artemis III’s return to the lunar surface.

NASA has awarded Advanced Space two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contracts.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other key agency leaders are acknowledging challenges in meeting the December 2025 schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing.

The base period of the Integrated Mission Operations Contract III (IMOC III) cost plus/award fee contract extends from Oct. 1 through Sept. 28, 2028.

The Northrop Grumman-built resupply vessel is planned for launch on an Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Aug. 1

Singer has held the director’s post since 2018, after serving two years as MSFC’s deputy director.

An audit of NASA's Deep Space Network recommends—among other suggestions—transmitter upgrades as part of the Deep Space Network Aperture Enhancement Project.

The 13-member CJS subcommittee’s version was approved by a voice vote at the conclusion of a 30-min. session.

The CJS portion of the 2024 spending legislation that includes NASA and which was marked up by the full committee passed by a bipartisan 28-1 vote.

NASA’s return to the Moon—and future human exploration initiatives—rely on private sector partnerships.

NASA has awarded Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace new task orders under existing contracts to provide spacesuits for use in low Earth orbit and the Moon’s surface.

Ispace of Japan has named Ronald Garan as the CEO of its subsidiary ispace technologies U.S.

Astronauts will be exploring the lunar south pole, which promises to yield discoveries about how the Solar System formed.

Westinghouse Electric Company and Astrobotic have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore development of space nuclear technologies.

NASA has managed to improve the cost performance of 16 major projects over the past year, a GAO report says.

Ispace believes that its Series 1 lunar lander crashed into the Moon because of an error in the spacecraft’s altitude measurement software.

NASA faces mounting urgency to control the cost of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket development and production, an agency inspector general’s audit says.

Part of NASA’s Artemis strategy includes a lunar south pole Artemis Base Camp, a concept that may end up consisting of more than one camp, experts say.

Five years after Jeff Bezos began wooing NASA to buy Blue Origin lunar landing services, the U.S. space agency said “yes.”

Readers write about hydrogen fuel cells, F-16 tech, Artemis III spacesuits. Plus: Behind the Scenes at Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan Testbed 80 facility.

The MTH is a conceptual component of a lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.