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Astronauts will be exploring the lunar south pole, which promises to yield discoveries about how the Solar System formed.

A routine checkpoint review exposed two safety issues that were seeded long ago.

SpaceX’s 28th NASA-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS docked autonomously to the orbital lab’s U.S. segment Harmony module early June 6.

NASA is progressing toward an October launch of Psyche, an approximately $1 billion science mission to orbit a metal-rich, main-belt asteroid.

A SpaceX Dragon capsule lifted off for a resupply run to the International Space Station on June 5, carrying more than 7,200 lb. of cargo.

Westinghouse Electric Company and Astrobotic have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore development of space nuclear technologies.

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Launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the Cargo Dragon capsule from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is planned for June 3 at 12:35 p.m. EDT.

Scientists at GE Research operating SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors have demonstrated advanced extreme-temperature-tolerant electronics.

On its second private charter to the ISS, Axiom flies a pair of Saudi astronauts.

NASA has managed to improve the cost performance of 16 major projects over the past year, a GAO report says.

NASA’s eVTOL crash test lessons; DLR’s impact test site; Formula One informs batteries; Eve tests UAM prototypes.

Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission (AX-2) to the International Space Station departed the orbital laboratory as planned on May 30.

The final two members of a novel cubesat quartet were launched into orbit to track developing storms on a near-hourly basis.

NASA faces mounting urgency to control the cost of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket development and production, an agency inspector general’s audit says.

The cislunar transporter would make propellant runs from LEO to lunar orbit.

Part of NASA’s Artemis strategy includes a lunar south pole Artemis Base Camp, a concept that may end up consisting of more than one camp, experts say.

Five years after Jeff Bezos began wooing NASA to buy Blue Origin lunar landing services, the U.S. space agency said “yes.”

Tokyo-based Gitai, a startup developing several space robots, has raised about ¥4 billion ($29 million) in funding as part of a Series B extension round.

NASA’s LROC has captured what appears to be images of debris scattered on the Moon at the planned landing site of ispace’s lunar lander, which crashed in April.

NASA has selected a new mission to study high-altitude ice clouds that form daily in Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions.

Blue Origin has succeeded on its second try to win a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface.

The NASA-funded Capstone has completed its six-month primary mission in orbit around the Moon with a successful autonomous navigation demonstration.

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DeltaHawk Engines of Racine, Wisconsin, said May 18 that the FAA has certified its DHK180 jet-fueled aircraft piston engine.