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The delayed program is set to provide a wealth of data to industry and regulators as NASA gears up for its long-anticipated first flight.

Each is to receive up to $600,000 over two years under 2023 Phase II NIAC grants.

Ultralight paint; silent propulsion; anti-icing drone props; and aircraft electrification startup.

Built by Ball Aerospace and integrated with Intelsat’s 40E communications satellite, TEMPO is to provide hourly monitoring of pollutants.

The relocation freed the Poisk module’s airlock for a series of upcoming spacewalks, while vacating the docking port for a Russian Progress resupply spacecraft.

The next flight in NASA’s Artemis program will test how Orion’s life support systems operate under pressure.

TEMPO and the Intelsat 40E communications satellite are planned for launch from Cape Canaveral.

The chief objective of NASA’s Artemis II mission is to do something that NASA’s Artemis I mission conducted late last year was not equipped to address.

Their names were unveiled by officials from NASA and the CSA in April 3 ceremonies at NASA Johnson Space Center facilities at nearby Ellington Airport here.

NASA has established a Moon to Mars Program Office to provide focused oversight of human exploration activities under the Artemis Program.

NASA and Boeing are now looking to July 21 at the earliest for the launch of the eight-day Crew Flight Test to the ISS.

Russia’s disabled Soyuz MS-22 crew transport departed the ISS early March 28 for an uncrewed, parachute-assisted descent to Earth in Kazakhstan.

Europe and China are investing at least 10 times the amount NASA and the FAA are spending annually for public-private R&D efforts on aeronautics.

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

The joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will undergo another independent review board assessment later this year.

NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon a half century ago lacked the challenges that the agency’s Artemis program faces, says NASA official Bhavya Lal.

U.S. space agency will lease the garments, which provide 8 hr. of life support for missions.

The UK Space Agency has granted £2.9 million to Rolls-Royce for research into how micro nuclear reactor technology might be used to power a Moon base.

Universities advance sustainability, robotic toolmaking, contactless braking and stratospheric batteries.

The agency's budget request would provide funding to land humans on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.

SpaceX’s 27th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station autonomously docked to the ISS early March 16.

NASA and Axiom Space on March 15 unveiled a new dark-colored astronaut spacesuit.

NASA has selected Houston-based Axiom Space to conduct a third four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

SpaceX’s 27th NASA-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station is on course for docking early March 16.

NASA has presented a detailed version of the Biden administration’s $27.2 billion fiscal 2024 budget request for the agency.