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True Anomaly says it is aiming to produce one example of its Jackal space domain awareness satellites every five days.

AST SpaceMobile has raised $115 million in debt, enough to fully fund the manufacturing of its first five cellular signal broadcasting BlueBird satellites.

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

SpaceX and NASA are meeting to discuss options for Artemis III’s return to the lunar surface.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other key agency leaders are acknowledging challenges in meeting the December 2025 schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing.

Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.

SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.

NASA has reassigned astronaut Jeannette Epps, who has been awaiting a spaceflight since joining the astronaut corps in 2009, to the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.

Impulse Space plans two follow-on missions in 2024 after its inaugural LEO Express 1 mission before year’s end.

Seven missions have been set aside for the third-place winner.

Axiom, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have all flown privately paying passengers into orbital and suborbital space from the U.S.

The foursome has trained for a more than six-month mission with a science and technology agenda that includes nearly 160 projects.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (Roman) could push open the door to the discovery of vast numbers of planets.

Ukraine has depended on Starlink for expansive battlefield communication.

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

The CJS portion of the 2024 spending legislation that includes NASA and which was marked up by the full committee passed by a bipartisan 28-1 vote.

NASA’s return to the Moon—and future human exploration initiatives—rely on private sector partnerships.

The Defense Innovation Unit wants ideas on how to transport military cargo around the Earth via rockets, as well as ways to store military payloads in orbit.

The probe will conduct a six-year survey to answer questions about dark matter, dark energy and what the universe is made of.

The splashdown occurred as planned at 10:30 a.m. EDT off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.

NASA’s 28th SpaceX-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission spacecraft departed the International Space Station June 29.

Building a space taxi for NASA turned out to be a whole lot harder than Boeing imagined.

The iROSAs, the seventh and eighth overall, will be used to upgrade solar power generation aboard the ISS.

Three months after confirming it was exploring a merger with Intelsat, Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said June 22 that the talks are off.

Astronauts and cosmonauts from four countries are to launch to the ISS in mid-August aboard SpaceX’s seventh NASA-contracted Crew Dragon mission.