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NASA is proceeding with plans to set up a new global Lunar Exploration Ground Sites communications network to support upcoming Moon missions seeking to establish a sustained human presence there.

Safran will provide the electrical power generation system for the Boeing X-66A aircraft, which forms part of NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project.

The 100-day mission was designed to hunt for water ice near the lunar south pole.

NASA Test Pilot Nils Larson spoke to Aviation Week about the space agency's mission to develop a "quiet" supersonic aircraft.

"We are still taking a look at the cause of the water leak and what we want to do to recover," says Dana Weigel, NASA's ISS program manager.

Dates for the review and Starliner’s departure from the ISS are pending.

The termination of the cost-and-schedule-challenged Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover was announced by NASA on July 17.

Rising costs and technical challenges have prompted NASA to cancel a commercially partnered, groundbreaking Moon mission.

Taiwan’s GlobalWafers will be awarded up to $400 million to boost advanced semiconductor silicon wafer production in the U.S.

Moon mining startup Interlune says it has received a $348,000 grant from NASA’s TechFlights program to test its lunar regolith beneficiation equipment.

The 212-ft. core stage will be used for the agency’s Artemis II mission.

Clayton Turner, the director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, was named the STMD acting administrator.

The mission is planned to launch to the lunar south pole in late 2024.

ESA has given the provisional go-ahead for a mission to fly by the Apophis asteroid in 2029 as part of planetary defense, with NASA also sending Osiris-Apex.

The magnetic field of Jupiter, the Solar System’s largest planet, is 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s.

The newly expanded consortium will also explore opportunities for the Dream Chaser in Japan and across the Asian continent.

Readers write about tidal effects of Jupiter on Europa, who should be Boeing’s next CEO, prospects for decarbonizing aviation and defense sovereignty.

Matching NASA’s needs with the ideal contracting mechanism is a challenge.

The mission, designated Artemis IV, is to be the first aboard the more powerful SLS Block 1 rocket.

Starliner was launched June 5 on an anticipated nine-day flight test.

Four volunteers with astronaut-like credentials have concluded the first of NASA’s three planned yearlong Earth-based missions on a simulated Martian surface.

Russia plans to start deploying a new orbital station, ROS, in 2027 using an upgraded rocket, while also developing a new crew capsule.

A surprising groundswell of single-aisle airliner propulsion systems are under development.

Firefly Aerospace has deployed eight cubesats for NASA with a flight of its Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, amid operational expansion efforts.

NASA has selected rookie astronaut Andre Douglas as a backup for the three agency astronauts assigned to the planned 2025 Artemis II mission.