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Astronauts will be exploring the lunar south pole, which promises to yield discoveries about how the Solar System formed.

Safran CEO Olivier Andries stresses risk- and revenue-sharing as part of sector reorganization for future launches following Ariane 6 program delays.

Heavy state intervention could weigh down China’s plans to dominate commercial space.

SpaceX’s 28th NASA-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS docked autonomously to the orbital lab’s U.S. segment Harmony module early June 6.

On its second private charter to the ISS, Axiom flies a pair of Saudi astronauts.

NASA’s LROC has captured what appears to be images of debris scattered on the Moon at the planned landing site of ispace’s lunar lander, which crashed in April.

Axiom Space’s second, four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station docked to the space-facing port on the Harmony module on Monday.

Blue Origin has succeeded on its second try to win a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface.

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

The MTH is a conceptual component of a lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.

A second Great Observatory catches the eye of the fledgling in-space services industry.

NASA plans to announce a second industry partner to provide astronaut ferry flights between lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface on Friday, May 19.

Space Forge has unveiled additional details about its unfolding, “origami” heat shield for its ForgeStar re-entry vehicle.

The team aims to do an end run around rival commercial space stations.

Vast and SpaceX plan to launch a commercial space station, named Haven-1, as soon as August 2025.

While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon switched ISS docking ports May 6 to make room for Axiom Space’s second private astronaut mission and a later a SpaceX cargo mission.

The pacing item to return to flight may be the automated destruct safety system.

Competition from lower-tier suppliers and other countries is picking up.

Twenty-seven seconds into the flight an “energetic event” caused a communications breakdown with another engine, No. 19.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says that the troubled initial test launch of SpaceX’s Super Heavy/Starship combination has added uncertainty to Artemis III.

Aviation Week editors talk about the aftermath of the Starship test and the future of commercial and military space launches.

With five Super Heavy boosters and eight Starships in production, SpaceX ramps up flight test program.

The U.S. Space Force’s upcoming competition for national security space launch service will be open to novel heavy- and superheavy new boosters.

The U.S. military says it has tracked more than 11,000 missile launches during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.