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NASA-funded multiuniversity project builds and tests an integrated modular motor drive for electric aircraft.

The program, known as Silent Barker, consists of at least two launches, each with multiple payloads.

NASA has declared the Mars Oxygen-Generating Experiment (MOXIE) launched aboard the Mars Perseverance rover mission a success.

NASA officials have acknowledged the evolving Space Launch System rocket is unaffordable at current cost levels.

Editors discuss NASA’s recent contract awards to study tech for high-speed airliners—and the one supersonic project that is still pushing forward, Boom.

Building on good results of initial 4,000-lb. demonstrator RDRE engines, NASA says larger pressure-gain rockets hold promise for future space missions.

NASA says it will pursue recommendations from an agency inspector general audit report of its Earth System Science Pathfinder Program.

Three women astronaut candidates from 1978 observed the milestone and encouraged those from all backgrounds to follow their dreams.

Previous work on hypersonic accelerator and high-speed patent provide possible clues as to GE’s ambitions for rotating detonation technology.

NASA says a $1.2 billion mission to learn more about the metal-rich asteroid Psyche is on track for launch on Oct. 5 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Companies work to track millions of pieces of space junk and plan for their incineration.

Spire Global has won a $4.6 million, 12-month NASA contract to develop a microwave sounder device for the NOAA Near-Earth Orbit Network satellite constellation.

The crew splashed down in darkness at 12:17 a.m. EDT and were joined 30 min. later by a SpaceX recovery vessel with NASA staffers and medical personnel.

NASA’s Crew-6 mission astronauts and cosmonaut are set to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean waters off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., ending a 186-day mission.

Intuitive Machines plans to raise $20 million from a sale of its stock and warrants to an undisclosed institutional investor.

The timeline for the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to return from the International Space Station has been revised.

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

The probe began its return to Earth on May 10, 2021, with an estimated 8 oz. (250 grams) of surface material from Bennu.

The launch will take place aboard the next SpaceX commercial resupply mission.

NASA says the problems were uncovered during system checkout tests at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California.

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance docked to the space-facing port of the ISS U.S. segment's Harmony module at 9:16 a.m. EDT.

Endurance lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 26 at 3:27 a.m., EDT.

Designated Progress 85 by NASA, the Russian space freighter MS-24 linked to the aft port of the ISS Russian segment's Zvezda service module at 11:45 p.m. EDT.

Thrusters on the International Space Station Russian segment’s Zvezda service module were commanded to fire for an orbital debris avoidance maneuver.

India trumped a Russian effort to conduct the first in situ science experiments in a water-bearing region of the Moon.