SpaceX

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

NASA’s 30th SpaceX commercial resupply mission was on a course to reach the International Space Station with a nearly 6,300-lb. cargo early March 23.

SpaceX plans to sell laser communications systems developed for its Starlink broadband satellites to third-party satellite manufacturers.

The agency is asking for the same amount of money it received in 2023.

SpaceX's Starship completed a full-duration ascent burn and was able to run through a series of engineering demonstrations as it coasted above Earth.

Last living Apollo 17 crewmember is guiding off-world prospecting.

The parachute-assisted splashdown of the four fliers occurred at 5:47 a.m. EDT, following atmospheric re-entry in the skies over the U.S. midwest and southeast.

Satellite crowding and military conflict create new dangers in space.

SpaceX's Crew-7 Dragon spacecraft departed the ISS with a four-person crew on March 11 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the Florida peninsula.

Launch of the SpaceX Cargo Dragon with a more than 6,000-lb. payload from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is planned for no earlier than mid-March.

Astra Space will go private by accepting a recently lowered buyout bid from its co-founders and top executives.

Pending clearance from the FAA, SpaceX said on March 6 that it could be ready for its third Starship/Super Heavy flight test from Boca Chica Beach, Texas, as early as March 14.

Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather Systems (EWS) cubesat technology demonstrator was successfully launched on March 4.

Scrappy Houston startup Intuitive Machines puts the U.S. back on the surface of the Moon.

Expected poor weather downrange, a concern in case of a launch abort, has delayed SpaceX's Crew-8 launch.

Three months after SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy’s second flight test ended in a mid-air explosion, the FAA closed its accident investigation.

The LEO constellation is driving down satellite internet costs.

SpaceX plans to place its first direct-to-cellular phone Starlink constellation in orbit by the end of August.

There is a long history of NASA brain power moving on to private industry.

A pair of prototypes for the MDA's Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program reached orbit following launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom capsule carrying four Axiom Space private astronauts splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast on Feb. 9.

The Houston-based company is poised to become the fourth private entity to attempt a lunar landing.

Ax-3's splashdown and the start of SpaceX-led recovery operations are planned for Feb. 9 at 8:30 a.m. EST off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida.

NASA, Axiom Space and SpaceX plan an undocking of the Crew Dragon Freedom capsule from the International Space Station no earlier than 9:05 a.m. EST on Feb. 7.

Unfavorable weather has again stymied Ax-3's departure from the ISS, with NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space to re-assess the weather outlook as the day progresses.