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The company plans to develop a fully autonomous docking system for the Cygnus.

Use of the technology readiness level model for production is being reexamined.

NASA has postponed a pair of International Space Station spacewalks planned for Oct. 12 and Oct. 20 due to a coolant leak.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu returned to Earth less than three weeks ago by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission already are paying scientific dividends.

Planet Labs has delivered its Pelican-1 Earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of a planned launch in November.

An external coolant leak from a backup radiator on the International Space Station’s Russian segment Nauka multipurpose laboratory module has ceased.

Ground controllers saw flakes coming from the leak site—on one of two radiators—on Oct. 9 at about 1 p.m. EDT, using externally mounted ISS cameras, NASA says.

The European Space Agency has launched a competition for “visionary business ideas” for how to use its proposed “Moonlight” project.

NASA plans a pair of International Space Station (ISS) spacewalks in October that will feature three different first-time Expedition 70 spacewalkers.

Japan’s space startups—and their U.S. subsidiaries—are playing a prominent role in several U.S. Space Force and NASA missions.

Prada, the Italian luxury fashion house, is partnering with Axiom Space for development of a new generation of NASA spacesuit to be donned by the astronauts assigned to the Artemis III lunar landing.

Achieving essential soft landings on the Moon with precision is proving to be a challenge.

Northrop was one of four teams to win NASA funding for early development of commercial LEO platforms.

The X-66A will combine the experimental high aspect ratio TTBW wing with the modified fuselage of an MD-90.

Congress has authorized ISS operations through 2030.

Financing issues are delaying development of a new Russian space station in low Earth orbit.

NASA plans to extend its New Horizons mission, the first to conduct a close flyby of distant Pluto and its moons, until the end of the decade with a focus on gathering data on solar activity and its influences across the Solar System.

Gitai’s 1.5-m-long autonomous dual robotic arm system (S2) has successfully passed all NASA safety reviews for its planned International Space Station external demonstration.

The parameters for thruster operations are being altered in response to warmer thermal predictions for their use, according to a NASA mission update.

NASA, the Japan Exploration Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency will analyze some of the 250 grams of material from the asteroid Bennu.

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The FAA also called for organizational changes following the Sept. 12, 2022, uncrewed New Shepard-23 mission.

Team wants data on S4 dynamics in simulated lunar space.

The capsule touched down at 7:17 a.m. EDT, about 90 mi. southeast of Dzhezkazgan, and was met within minutes by recovery team members.

Lt. Gen. John Shaw, senior U.S. Space Force officer at Space Command, says challenges will grow as vehicles become more complex and operate further from Earth.