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The planned launch from Kennedy Space Center is set for no earlier than this spring aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.

A new executive order seeks to bolster national security by reviving and expanding a massive space- and ground-based missile defense system.

Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore enhanced their extended mission to the ISS by recovering an RFG antenna.

Findings from a pair of extensive research efforts were published Jan. 29 by the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy.

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a series of payload integration tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida which keep it on track for a planned mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.

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Located at the agency’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) is available to industry and academia.

The private rocket company said the launch window for NS-29 is due to open at 11 a.m. EST.

Lockheed Martin is preparing to ship its newly completed Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center for its planned launch next month to map water deposits on the Moon.

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

ESA scientists say liquid water may not yet have been discovered on another planet because observation has not focused long enough on a given star.

The awards are part of the Artemis program’s objectives of establishing a sustainable human presence at the Moon to prepare for human expeditions to Mars.

“It’s time to be able to move through space at will and to be able to defend ourselves when we are attacked,” ULA CEO Tory Bruno says.

The world is headed for a period of launcher abundance as the New Glenn expands rocket choice in the heavy-lift segment.

Funded under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, the Hy2PASS project is led by Phillip Ansell.

The signing took place in Espoo, Finland, at Aalto University’s Winter Satellite Workshop 2025.

Petro could fill the role until Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, billionaire Jarad Isaacman, achieves U.S. Senate confirmation.

If NASA puts all its resources into sending a U.S. person planting the U.S. flag on Mars, the game changes for the European, CNES President Lionel Suchet says.

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to bring astronauts to the moon and "plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars."

Ispace of Japan’s commercial “Resilience” lunar lander has completed its initial orbital maneuver, setting it on a course toward the Moon.

DARPA and NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion project will miss its scheduled 2027 testing time frame, as its development has proven trickier than anticipated.

Moon dust and other characteristics of the lunar environment are due for closer inspection if two newly launched landers can make it safely to the lunar surface.

Two pioneering commercial lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan's ispace's Resilience, successfully launched early Jan. 15.

The El Segundo, California-based company’s W-2 capsule carries a spectrometer from the Air Force Research Laboratory.

The Jan. 14 announcement did not identify the vehicle, but it is likely the Kratos Erinyes hypersonic glider.