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• Chinese Shenzhou 14 crew arrive at Tiangong space station

  Cullen DesforgesJune 5th, 2022

  Shenzhou 14 and three Chinese space flyers launched to the Tiangong space station on a mission to complete the assembly of China's first modular outpost.

• NASA awards contracts for commercial spacesuits for ISS, Moon

  Theresa CrossJune 3rd, 2022

  Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace have been selected by NASA to build commercial spacesuits for the International Space Station and Artemis programs.

• SpaceX Transporter-5 mission orbits dozens of small satellites

  Theresa CrossMay 25th, 2022

  Continuing its average launch cadence of once a week, SpaceX flew a Falcon 9 rocket with the Transporter-5 rideshare mission.

• Helicopter snags falling Electron rocket before dropping it

  Theresa CrossMay 3rd, 2022

  A Rocket Lab helicopter successfully caught a returning Electron rocket booster as it parachuted back to Earth, only to release it moments later.

• Rocket Lab to try catch 1st stage of its next Electron rocket

  Theresa CrossApril 28th, 2022

  Rocket Lab is going to attempt to catch the first stage of its next Electron rocket with a helicopter as it returns from space under a parachute.

• SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites into orbit

  Theresa CrossApril 21st, 2022

  SpaceX lofted another set of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit with its Falcon 9 rocket, continuing the company’s nearly once-a-week launch cadence.

• Crew-4 astronauts arrive at Kennedy in advance of ISS mission

  Theresa CrossApril 18th, 2022

  The next set of astronauts bound for the International Space Station has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in advance of their launch.

• SpaceX launches 1st all-private astronaut mission to the ISS

  Theresa CrossApril 8th, 2022

  Launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket left Earth on an all-private astronaut mission for Axiom Space.

• SpaceX launches Transporter-4 smallsat rideshare mission

  Theresa CrossApril 1st, 2022

  Using a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX’s Transporter-4 dedicated smallsat rideshare mission lofted 40 payloads into a polar orbit from Florida.

• New Shepard rocket roars off the pad on 20th mission

  Theresa CrossMarch 31st, 2022

  Blue Origin launched another six passengers aboard its New Shepard spacecraft -- the 20th flight of the rocket system and the fourth with people.

• President requests $7.5B for NASA’s Artemis program in 2023

  Derek RichardsonMarch 28th, 2022

  President Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget requests nearly an additional billion dollars over 2022’s enacted amount for NASA's Artemis lunar program.

• NASA expanding heat shield technology this fall

  Cullen DesforgesMarch 10th, 2022

  As humanity prepares to face the extreme challenges of deep space, NASA engineers are hard at work researching new and innovative ways to safely land large payloads, including astronauts, on Mars.

• Arianespace, OneWeb suspend Soyuz launches indefinitely

  Derek RichardsonMarch 4th, 2022

  In response to Russia withdrawing its Soyuz support personnel from Europe’s South American space port, Arianespace has suspended all future launches atop the Russian rocket.

• Russia threatens to not launch OneWeb satellites

  Derek RichardsonMarch 2nd, 2022

  OneWeb has become the latest pawn of Roscosmos in the declining relations between Russia and the West after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Atlas V orbits GOES-T weather satellite for NOAA

  Theresa CrossMarch 2nd, 2022

  A new weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was launched by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

• ExoMars rover now ‘very unlikely’ to launch in 2022

  Cullen DesforgesMarch 1st, 2022

  In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency said its joint robotic ExoMars mission with Russia is unlikely to launch in 2022.

• Rocket Lab’s Electron flies from new pad in New Zealand

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 28th, 2022

  In Rocket Lab’s inaugural launch from a new pad, the company’s Electron rocket orbited a small satellite for Synspective.

• ULA set to launch GOES-T weather satellite for NOAA

  Theresa CrossFebruary 28th, 2022

  United Launch Alliance is preparing to fly an Atlas V rocket to send the GOES-T satellite into space for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

• Boeing tests all-composite cryogenic propellant tank

  Theresa CrossFebruary 23rd, 2022

  At the end of 2021, Boeing completed a series of tests on a “large, fully-composite, linerless cryogenic tank” at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama.

• NG-17 Cygnus lofted into orbit, beginning 40-hour ISS chase

  Theresa CrossFebruary 19th, 2022

  Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket had a spectacular liftoff from Virginia to send the NG-17 Cygnus cargo spacecraft toward the International Space Station.