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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says that the troubled initial test launch of SpaceX’s Super Heavy/Starship combination has added uncertainty to Artemis III.

Operating under unfunded Space Act Agreements, the companies will work for periods of 12 to 24 months.

During the test campaign, Reliable Robotics coordinated encounters of 2 of its aircraft in California while data was being collected by FAA ground-based radar.

With NASA’s Artemis program beginning to unfold, the agency and its supporters have launched an unprecedented focus on sustainability.

NASA has devised a 10-year strategy for advancing efforts to protect the Earth from a devastating encounter with a Near Earth asteroid or comet.

Northrop Grumman’s 18th NASA contracted resupply mission capsule departed the ISS, filled with trash.

U.S. Air Force future tanker interest and commercial midmarket demand combine to provide a long-awaited potential launch window for a blended wing body concept.

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

Contenders take different approaches to challenges of lunar rover design as NASA contest nears new stage.

Astroport Space Technologies, a startup developing a system of baking Moon dust into lunar roads and rocket pads, has partnered with Interflight Global Europe.

The point of the mission is to verify the oceans’ existence, investigate their properties and assess if there are environments where life may exist.

NASA has awarded Space & Technology Solutions a potential $719 million contract for the support of work on the agency’s Joint Polar Satellite System.

NASA has selected Aerospace Corp. to run the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities.

Russia plans to send the Venera-D exploration mission to Venus without NASA participation, albeit with less ambitious scientific goals.

NASA gives "marching orders" to international and commercial partners interested in joining U.S. efforts to expand human activities beyond low Earth orbit.

As NASA closes in on releasing a request for proposals for a rover vehicle service on the Moon, Leidos has unveiled a prototype Lunar Terrain Vehicle.

SpaceX will try again on April 20 to send a Starship spacecraft into a 90-min. flight test around the Earth.

Quiet electric propulsion startup Whisper Aero has received Series A funding that will allow launch production of its electric ducted fan.

Launched on June 28, 2022, the Capstone small satellite on Nov. 13 became the first spacecraft to enter a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit.

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investment firm in the aerospace and defense sector, has unveiled a partnership with Space Florida.

The IRB is chaired by Orlando Figueroa, retired deputy center director for science and technology at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

The blower mechanism was delivered in November aboard Northrop Grumman’s 18th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS.

NASA will soon choose four volunteers to enter its new Mars Dune Alpha, an elaborate simulated red planet habitat.

In addition to the prize money, competitors and their proposals will also receive attention from potential external funding sources and investors.

As part of the collaboration, NASA will provide lessons learned from research conducted into urban air mobility at its Langley Research Center.