Artemis III

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace new task orders under existing contracts to provide spacesuits for use in low Earth orbit and the Moon’s surface.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace of Japan has named Ronald Garan as the CEO of its subsidiary ispace technologies U.S.
Commercial Space

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

By Garrett Reim
Westinghouse Electric Company and Astrobotic have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore development of space nuclear technologies.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has managed to improve the cost performance of 16 major projects over the past year, a GAO report says.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace believes that its Series 1 lunar lander crashed into the Moon because of an error in the spacecraft’s altitude measurement software.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA faces mounting urgency to control the cost of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket development and production, an agency inspector general’s audit says.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Part of NASA’s Artemis strategy includes a lunar south pole Artemis Base Camp, a concept that may end up consisting of more than one camp, experts say.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Five years after Jeff Bezos began wooing NASA to buy Blue Origin lunar landing services, the U.S. space agency said “yes.”
Commercial Space

Readers write about hydrogen fuel cells, F-16 tech, Artemis III spacesuits. Plus: Behind the Scenes at Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan Testbed 80 facility.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Mark Carreau
The MTH is a conceptual component of a lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.
Space

By Irene Klotz
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.
Commercial Space

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

By Mark Carreau
With NASA’s Artemis program beginning to unfold, the agency and its supporters have launched an unprecedented focus on sustainability.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded Space & Technology Solutions a potential $719 million contract for the support of work on the agency’s Joint Polar Satellite System.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA administrator acknowledges the cost and schedule issues across some of its most challenging human deep-space exploration and space-science objectives.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA will soon choose four volunteers to enter its new Mars Dune Alpha, an elaborate simulated red planet habitat.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The next flight in NASA’s Artemis program will test how Orion’s life support systems operate under pressure.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The chief objective of NASA’s Artemis II mission is to do something that NASA’s Artemis I mission conducted late last year was not equipped to address.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Their names were unveiled by officials from NASA and the CSA in April 3 ceremonies at NASA Johnson Space Center facilities at nearby Ellington Airport here.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has established a Moon to Mars Program Office to provide focused oversight of human exploration activities under the Artemis Program.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon a half century ago lacked the challenges that the agency’s Artemis program faces, says NASA official Bhavya Lal.
Space