The booster anomaly was identified shortly after liftoff on Oct. 11, triggering a ballistic re-entry of the capsule and subjecting the crew to higher-than-normal G forces.

SpaceX completed a picture-perfect nighttime recovery of the first Falcon 9 booster stage on the U.S. West Coast after launching the SAOCOM 1A radar-imaging satellite for CONEA, Argentina’s national space agency, from Vandenberg AB, California on Oct. 7.

Northrop Grumman plans to wrap up its first round of ISS cargo delivery missions for NASA with a year-long demonstration of its Cygnus freighter’s abilities.

Airbus and partners aim to stimulate tech development for sustainable lunar exploration and development with a new international competition called The Moon Race.

For Arianespace, the mission is a milestone, since it is the 100th launch of an Ariane 5 since its inception in 1996. The two satellites are the 206th and 207th launched by the heavy-lift vehicle.

Two Japanese mini-rovers touched down on the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu early Sept. 22 and are in motion and transmitting imagery.

Air launch space company Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled study plans for a pair of hypersonic flying testbeds that could be launched from the company’s very large carrier aircraft.

The first five years of the Space Force is estimated to cost $12.9 billion, according to a Sept. 14 report included in a letter from Wilson obtained by Aerospace DAILY.