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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.

Readers write about politics and free speech in Feedback, aspiring aerospace industry employees, the U.S. F-22 successor and engine dust problems.

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.

After adjusting for distance, SpaceX’s new Generation V2 Mini Starlink satellites are 12 times less luminous than previous generation Starlink spacecraft.

Readers write about JetZero’s blended wingbody, SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy launch failure and airliner engine nacelles. Plus: Behind the Scenes at Boeing.

Spire Global launched a pair of 6U cubesats with laser communications payloads aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on June 12.

Ariane 6 delays and problems with Vega C leave European launch industry mostly grounded.

NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg installed a fifth ISS Roll Out Solar Array on the International Space Station’s lengthy solar power truss.

OneWeb and Eutelsat demonstrate for NATO the ability to connect their respective low-Earth-orbit and geostationary-orbit satellites to a single mobile terminal.