International Space Station (ISS)

By Mark Carreau
In 2024, the effort oversaw the launch and execution of 110 science and technology projects across seven crew, resupply and private astronaut missions.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
The return of U.S. astronauts to the Moon won’t happen until at least mid-2027, says NASA.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagnerts began the spacewalk with the installation of the All Sky Monitor.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Like Axiom, Vast has hired SpaceX for PAM crew ferry flights and training.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
The funding cut will mean that NASA will have to reallocate $180 million from its current space operations budget.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
The fixed-price contract listed a maximum value of $140 million over a five-year base period with an additional two-year option.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The return ended a nearly eight-week roundtrip to the seven-person International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The Dragon capsule has a return cargo that includes scientific research and equipment.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Lucy mission spacecraft sped close by the Earth for a second gravity assist to place the probe on a course for the first flybys of five Trojan asteroids.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The demonstration’s multiple objectives include creating and validating new technologies for improving communications between quantum computers.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
As the hatch was opened, the Russian cosmonauts observed small droplets of liquid as well as an unanticipated odor.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The uncrewed Russian cargo craft is delivering a 5,500-lb. cargo of food, propellant and crew supplies.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Progress MS-29 resupply capsule was on course for a Nov. 23 docking with the ISS, following a launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
The International Space Station crew used propulsion from a Russian Progress resupply capsule to carry out an orbital debris avoidance maneuver, NASA says.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Progress MS-27 cargo capsule departed the seven-person International Space Station early on Nov. 19.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The Exploration Company, which is working on an ESA cargo return capsule, says it has closed a $160 million Series B funding round.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The session focused on structural cracks with air leaks in the Russian segment and the safe potential deorbiting of the outpost in a contingency.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
The challenges are even more relevant because of a constrained federal budget environment.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
The Nov. 8 operation had already been set when the resupply mission docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS earlier this week.
Operations & Safety

By Garrett Reim
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered a cold welding experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 5.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS on Nov. 5 to deliver 6,000 lb. of supplies, station hardware and research material.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A followed a Falcon 9 scrub Nov. 3 at the neighboring Cape Canaveral SFS Space Launch Complex 40.
Operations & Safety

By Vivienne Machi
The Denver-based company is perhaps best known as a co-developer of the free-flying Starlab commercial space station for NASA.
Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX CRS-31 is scheduled to launch on the Falcon 9 rocket with the Cargo Dragon capsule from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 4 .
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) made special mention during its fourth-quarter session of how mission management openly addressed safety concerns.
Space Exploration