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Australian startup Gilmour Space Technologies is looking to return to the launchpad next year after the first attempt at an orbit flight failed.

Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), crews already operate as if they live and work aboard two distinct stations.

Lockheed Martin is developing business plans and strategies to offer commercial flight services of the Orion deep-space capsule.

“We can’t waste a day,” Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Sept. 30 during an interview with Aviation Week on the sidelines of the International Astronautical Congress.

SpaceX is targeting Oct. 13 for the next Starship-Super Heavy flight test.

Axiom Space unveiled a pilot program to provide personalized training for prospective human spaceflight participants interested in doing microgravity research.

The Exploration Co., a European startup developing cargo, and eventually crewed, spacecraft for LEO, plans a 2028 flight test to the ISS.

The first stage of an Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket being prepared for launch on a commercial mission for Lockheed Martin was destroyed Sept. 29.

SUNY Stony Brook has an agreement with the China National Space Agency to receive a sample of lunar regolith returned to Earth as part of the Chang’e 5 mission.

NASA is delaying plans to issue a solicitation for the next phase of a public-private partnership program to spur development of one or more new space stations in low Earth orbit (LEO) while it assesses feedback from industry.

Katalyst Space won a $30 million Small Business Innovation Research contract from NASA to attempt to save a space telescope from reentering the atmosphere.

Blue Origin is developing three new suborbital New Shepard launch systems and mulling expanding flight services beyond West Texas, the company said Sept. 28.