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The work is to commercially support NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate, including the Artemis initiative’s Space Launch System and Orion crew capsule.

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

JetZero and SHZ Advanced Technologies are working to adapt the French company’s liquid hydrogen storage and distribution technologies to the BWB configuration.

Following a trio of failed flight tests, SpaceX’s new launch system completed a full-duration demonstration.

The International Space Station (ISS) has been a catalyst in firing up a low Earth orbit economy and an asset that must be leveraged to keep that fire lit.

As NASA closes in on the liftoff of its first Artemis mission to the Moon with astronauts, the agency is prepping for its second year-long simulation of life on the red planet.

Reliable Robotics has agreed to sell its Reliable Autonomy System (RAS) to the U.S. Air Force to be integrated and tested beginning mid-2026.

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NASA's 33rd SpaceX-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission successfully docked to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station early Aug. 25.

After 25 travel plan changes, the Escapade spacecraft are being prepared for a fall liftoff.

SpaceX on Aug. 24 launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral SFS carrying a propellant-heavy Dragon cargo ship to resupply and reboost the International Space Station's (ISS) orbit.

SpaceX is expected to add a U.S. capability to boost the orbit of the International Space Station during its latest cargo mission.

NASA and IBM have released an open-source artificial intelligence model for predicting solar weather that may harm satellites, space stations or astronauts.

NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On L1 mission is poised to initiate continuous in-space monitoring of the Sun for the first time following its launch next month.

Without intervention, NASA predicts Swift will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in late 2026.

The giant gas planet Uranus, located more than 19 times farther away from the Sun than Earth, has a previously unknown moon, bringing its orbital entourage to 29.

Astrobotic has reached a milestone under an agreement with NASA to deploy 500 m of ultralight cable across the lunar surface.

The Falcon 9 launch of CRS-33 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is targeted for Aug. 24 at 2:45 a.m. EDT, carrying 5,000 lb. of supplies, equipment and research.

The largest antenna reflector ever assigned to a NASA mission has been successfully deployed, the agency says.

NASA also floated the idea that the nuclear reactor might be contracted as an “end-to-end service” from development, launch, landing to operations on the Moon.

NASA is altering plans to issue contracts for the development of commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the International Space Station.

An executive order issued by President Trump seeks to streamline the regulation of U. S. commercial space operations.

KBR hopes tech and tools developed for its Iron Stallion space domain awareness monitoring platform will enable it to play a key role in Golden Dome.

NASA is commissioning 30-day studies to assess using emerging commercial space technology to reboost the decaying orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.

The testing is part of the evaluation of the spacesuit's performance for the Artemis III mission, the first post-Apollo Moon landing with astronauts, currently planned for mid-2027.