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NASA shifts SunRISE mission from Vulcan to Falcon Heavy as Vulcan faces delays, aiming to map solar emissions and magnetic field lines for storm warnings.

Boeing says its future in space is in national security and defense, focusing all of its investment in this area as it works to get Starliner on track.

Ispace Technologies U.S. and Draper plan to terminate their partnership to develop a lunar lander for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

As part of the upcoming Artemis III flight test, NASA plans to outfit its crewed Orion spacecraft with two mini lasers to connect with SpaceX’s Starlink network.

NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s large moon Titan is preparing for launch no earlier than July 2028, with arrival in late 2034.

Voyager Technologies, a contender for a NASA-backed, privately owned space station in low Earth orbit, is adding Penn State University to its associated space research institute.

Axiom Space appointed experienced finance and technology executives as it advances its initiatives.

Wisk Aero and NASA have demonstrated that one ground-based supervisor can oversee three autonomous eVTOL aircraft simultaneously while interacting with ATC.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-29 successfully launched and autonomously docked to the Russian segment of the International Space Station on July 14.

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National Reconnaissance Office Director Christopher Scolese retired July 10 after leading the intelligence agency since 2019, an agency announcement says.

NASA's Capstone mission concludes after testing lunar navigation and communications tech for future deep space exploration.

NASA has selected seven companies eligible for contract awards to advance robotic surface mobility on Mars.

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

NASA is gambling that a $30 million demonstration mission can capture and reboost the Swift gamma-ray telescope.

NASA will provide the instruments, but they will be owned by Relativity, as will the data they collect, which the company plans to share with the science community.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has awakened from a 321-day hibernation period and begun transmitting data gathered during the interim.

An MIT-led simulation and modeling effort offers a potential space-based method for detecting nuclear weapons in Earth orbit.

NASA released a long-awaited draft solicitation July 6 for industry partners to design, build and operate a commercial space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) to succeed the International Space Station.

Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL rocket has deployed a Katalyst Space spacecraft it plans to use to boost the orbit of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.

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NASA's reimbursable Space Act Agreement, announced June 17, goes well beyond what NASA has previously done to support the burgeoning commercial space industry.

Blue Origin says it has cleared all the debris from the botched preflight hotfire test that destroyed a New Glenn rocket and has started rebuilding its severely damaged launchpad.

Boeing and NASA are running out of time to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station aboard CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

In partnership with the Small Business Administration (SBA), NASA unveiled a new initiative to bolster U.S. manufacturing capabilities to support human exploration of the Moon and Mars.