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The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense
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By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space and Italy’s Prada fashion house have unveiled the Liquid Coolant and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) element of their next-generation spacesuit.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
A Czech astronaut is poised to travel to the International Space Station under a Vast private astronaut mission, the European Space Agency said.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built X-59 Quesst low-boom demonstrator conducted its first supersonic flight on June 5, reaching Mach 1.1 on an 81-min. mission.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Five of the International Space Station's (ISS) seven crew temporarily retreated to the docked SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon capsule as a safe haven on June 5.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
With Blue Origin’s New Glenn rockets grounded, NASA said it wants options to launch the company’s lunar lander to support a planned Artemis III demo flight test in Earth orbit next year.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA's extended Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has come to a close, the agency announced June 3.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
NASA has teased results from 18-month studies by industry and academia to identify technologies and concepts for ultra-efficient commercial aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
NASA is rescinding a proposal to anchor a post-International Space Station commercial platform with a government-owned module.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Electric propulsion developer Whisper Aero says testing of its JetFoil upper surface blowing tech has confirmed the capability for near-vertical takeoffs and landings without the complexity and noise of exposed propellers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
Voyager Technologies disclosed the purchase of Astrobotic Technology to burnish its lunar exploration capabilities.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
GE Aerospace is moving toward flight tests of a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine system on a modified Saab 340B testbed.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, launched to enable interoperability between satellite relay networks, has completed its planned demonstration phase.
Satellites

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The Week Ahead in Aerospace & Defense
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By Irene Klotz
Initial visual inspections indicate a second booster and upper stage in a processing hangar at SLC-36 were unaffected by the Blue Origin New Glenn explosion.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA's Johnson Space Center has chosen seven companies eligible to compete for up to $300 million in construction and upgrade projects at the site.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The four NASA Artemis II mission astronauts may have opened a significant new door for future human deep-space exploration with a health science study effort.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s single largest contract—for the operations and management of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California—will be up for bids for the first time in the agency’s history.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
Intuitive Machines (IM) is now the prime operator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Camera and Shadow Cam.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
NASA awarded contracts totaling nearly $1 billion for a pair of crew-capable lunar rovers and transportation services to land them on the Moon.
Space Exploration

By P. Barry Butler
Millennial engineers are engaged in NASA’s Artemis missions, and the program is likely to inspire future generations of scientists, engineers and explorers.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA is culling its mission directorates and making other organizational changes with the goal of improving efficiency and better implementing the Trump administration's directives.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
One designer’s thoughts on NASA Aeronautics’ next step.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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