The launch of Russia’s robotic Luna-25 lander to the Moon is likely to slip to 2023. 

NASA has awarded a $73 million contract to Draper, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for a robotic mission to Schrodinger Basin on the Moon’s far side to conduct a series of geophysical and environmental science investigations.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on July 21 to advance activation of the 37-ft.-long, multi-jointed European Robotic Arm. The arm was launched as part of the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module in July 2021.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is joining forces with Lockheed Martin to once again produce a rugged, non-pneumatic tire for use on the Moon.

UK-based horizontal space launch company Astraius has selected Northrop Grumman and Exquadrum to be suppliers for a three-stage rocket system. 

Millennium Space Systems says it has demonstrated several new technologies–including new avionics, communications devices, onboard processing of data and radio-frequency crosslinks–with a three-satellite constellation called RED-EYE that showcases the strength of small satellites.

NASA has targeted three potential launch dates for Artemis I, a multiweek uncrewed first test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on a mission around the Moon and back to Earth.

NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory that is to join the James Webb Space Telescope and aging Hubble Space Telescope in studies of exoplanets and the deepest reaches of the universe.