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NASA cites a gap in currently envisioned lunar cargo lander capabilities.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the Daichi-4 earth observation satellite using its H3 rocket.

The findings, attributed to more than 50 scientists, were published June 26 in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

GE’s small hybrid core; on-site hydrogen on demand; 3D-printing magnesium; and very-low-orbit space tracker.

A flex shaft for the A350’s high lift system has become the most complex 3D-printed metal part to be approved for series production by Airbus and EASA.

The EarthCARE satellite is designed to determine what role clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling the atmosphere to better understand climate change.

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

The country is shaking up space exploration, commerce and the broader geopolitical picture.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has selected Astroscale to remove an upper-stage rocket body from orbit.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) Aerospace Systems Company is hoping to “aggressively” market its self-developed engines overseas.

New agreements between the U.S. and Japan are set to expand cooperation in the future human exploration of the Moon.

JAXA tells Aerospace DAILY that despite the two-year delay, it is only considering some minor efforts to add “more sophistication” to some of the MMX experiments.

Wakata has logged 505 days in space over five missions on the NASA space shuttle, Russian Soyuz, SpaceX Crew Dragon and International Space Station.

Japan’s Smart Lander For Investigating Moon spacecraft has survived a second lunar night.

Space One's Kairos rocket exploded seconds after liftoff on the morning of March 13, with the company saying “flight termination measures” had kicked in.

The parachute-assisted splashdown of the four fliers occurred at 5:47 a.m. EDT, following atmospheric re-entry in the skies over the U.S. midwest and southeast.

The JAXA Smart Lander for Investigating Moon set a standard Intuitive Machines hopes to meet with its Odysseus lunar lander soon.

Japan’s Smart Lander For Investigating Moon (SLIM) survived a two-week lunar night and powered up over the weekend.

NASA, SpaceX and Russia’s Roscosmos are preparing for the first seven-person, multiweek crew exchange of 2024 aboard the International Space Station.

Multicopter lift-offset eVTOL; Emergency lubrication; Oceanic uncrewed aircraft; USAF tests uncrewed cargo.

Astroscale Japan’s debris inspection satellite has been successfully launched into orbit on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle.

Japanese researchers are studying the design for a multicopter electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

Japan reestablished communications with its toppled Moon probe, which successfully touched down—in an unplanned orientation—last week.

Astrobotic and JAXA wrestle with landing on the Moon.

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