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Companies work to track millions of pieces of space junk and plan for their incineration.

The Space Development Agency said the launch manifest included Transport satcoms from Lockheed Martin Space and York Space Systems, and a SpaceX Tracking sat.

The crew splashed down in darkness at 12:17 a.m. EDT and were joined 30 min. later by a SpaceX recovery vessel with NASA staffers and medical personnel.

NASA’s Crew-6 mission astronauts and cosmonaut are set to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean waters off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., ending a 186-day mission.

The timeline for the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to return from the International Space Station has been revised.

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The launch will take place aboard the next SpaceX commercial resupply mission.

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance docked to the space-facing port of the ISS U.S. segment's Harmony module at 9:16 a.m. EDT.

Endurance lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 26 at 3:27 a.m., EDT.

Designated Progress 85 by NASA, the Russian space freighter MS-24 linked to the aft port of the ISS Russian segment's Zvezda service module at 11:45 p.m. EDT.

The U.S. Justice Department claims SpaceX routinely denied jobs to non-U.S. citizens legally entitled to work in the country.

With their six-month, four-person SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the ISS drawing to a close, two of the U.S. flyers praised their NASA crewmate Frank Rubio.

Russia’s Progress MS-24 resupply mission was on course to reach the seven-person International Space Station late Aug. 24.

Preparations continue for the planned Aug. 25 launch of NASA’s Crew-7’s three astronauts and a cosmonaut to the International Space Station.

Russia’s Progress MS-22 resupply mission capsule has departed the International Space Station filled with trash.

The study contracts were awarded via the SDA’s System, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities broad agency announcement.

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

The Office of Space Commerce (OSC) within the Commerce Department is set to implement a three-phase plan to assume control of space situational awareness.

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

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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.