Space

Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 crew transport successfully docked with the International Space Station on March 25.

The agency’s disruptive approach to space acquisition has produced many contracts in a tight timeline, though its biggest tests are yet to come.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 is carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight tourist Marina Vasilevskaya.

The Cargo Dragon freighter is to remain docked for about five weeks before departing for a return to Earth with time-sensitive research.

The Indian Space Research Organization’s Pushpak reusable spaceplane autonomously landed on a runway.

SpaceX is looking to fly Starship again in early May.

Listen in as former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale joins Aviation Week editors to unpack Starship's third flight test.

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

NASA’s 30th SpaceX commercial resupply mission was on a course to reach the International Space Station with a nearly 6,300-lb. cargo early March 23.

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded three contracts for development of low-cost space tugs and in-space refueling technologies.

House and Senate appropriators seek to add dozens of aircraft to the Pentagon’s budget in a last-minute plan that needs to pass ahead of the March 22 deadline.

The launch of Russia's Soyuz MS-25 to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome was aborted 20 sec. prior to liftoff.

Astra Space and Terran Orbital are the latest public space startups to bow out.

DARPA has selected Northrop Grumman to study a concept to develop a railroad on the Moon that could transport humans, supplies and other resources.

A new study of the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission shows the Sept. 26, 2022, impact altered the shape and course of its target.

A key element for the Chang’e-6 moon landing mission later this year, the Queqiao-2 communication relay satellite has been put on a lunar transfer trajectory.

SpaceX plans to sell laser communications systems developed for its Starlink broadband satellites to third-party satellite manufacturers.

The agency is asking for the same amount of money it received in 2023.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas Stafford, who commanded NASA’s May 1969 Apollo 10 mission to the Moon and led the Apollo crew that participated in a historic linkup with Soviet cosmonauts, has died.

The launch will be part of Ariane 6’s development and remain under the ESA’s responsibility.

Tournear says while the test did successfully transmit data, transmissions were only successful about half of the time.

Spanish companies will use a microsatellite built by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test their planned space-based air traffic management (ATM) system.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is positioned to receive the largest share of NASA’s $25.384 billion funding request for 2025.

NASA must establish a more integrated, top-down management approach to its supercomputing assets, an agency IG report says.

China’s usually reliable Long March fleet suffered a launch hiccup when a Long March 2C failed to put two lunar navigation test satellites into orbit.