NASA selected two companies to develop lunar spacesuits for Artemis, but one company withdrew as development costs exceeded fixed-price funding.

NASA’s planned future CLPS missions are intended to launch one new mission each month.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman seeks to launch a new CLPS mission each month.

NASA selected two companies to develop lunar spacesuits for Artemis, and one company later withdrew as development costs exceeded fixed-price funding.

NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya said NASA has not yet decided how it would procure the vehicles and hardware needed for Isaacman’s lunar strategy.

Falcon 9 is priced at roughly two to four times its estimated internal cost.

Sierra Space is reducing planned cargo resupply flights to the International Space Station as it faces development issues.

Axiom Space is the only remaining company developing lunar spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis program.

SpaceX is pivoting toward space-based data centers and has merged with xAI.

SpaceX returned the two Starliner pilots to Earth on a Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Boeing’s Starliner experienced thruster problems on its next test flight to the International Space Station.

SpaceX has launched and returned more than 30 cargo flights and over a dozen crew flights for NASA.

NASA’s Space Launch System was created as a successor to the Space Shuttle under the 2010 NASA Authorization Act.

Boeing’s Starliner failed its first test flight to the International Space Station because of an internal clock failure.

Crew Dragon seat costs to the International Space Station have increased faster than inflation.

The Space Launch System is realistically capable of producing at most one vehicle per year.

Sierra Space has reduced planned cargo resupply flights to the International Space Station because of development issues.

NASA is considering a fixed-price-plus-partial-cost procurement model for future space hardware purchases.

NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya has said the procurement method for future lunar missions is still open.

NASA’s Office of Inspector General concluded that the private industry was not mature enough to conduct lunar exploration with minimal oversight and funding.

NASA has hinted at replacing the Space Launch System’s flight capability with commercial offerings for later Artemis missions.

Boeing’s first crewed Starliner flight experienced thruster failures that prevented the crew from returning to Earth on the vehicle.

NASA’s Space Launch System is realistically capable of producing at most one vehicle per year.

Boeing’s Starliner experienced thruster problems on its second test flight to the International Space Station.

NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program uses fixed-cost contracts to fund simple lunar landers from multiple emerging companies.

Boeing’s first crewed Starliner flight experienced thruster failures that prevented the crew from returning to Earth on the spacecraft.

NASA may procure SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn 9x4 for repeated Artemis missions.

SpaceX has launched and returned more than 30 cargo flights and over a dozen crew flights for NASA at record-low prices.

The Space Launch System has per-vehicle production costs of $2.5 billion, excluding Orion and ground systems.

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has been used for commercial Polaris and Axiom missions carrying private astronauts.

The Constellation program was canceled after the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011.

Boeing is reportedly considering exiting the commercial space market because it incurred $2 billion in losses from exceeding fixed-price caps.

Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions average less than $130 million each.

Axiom is the only remaining company developing lunar spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis program.

NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program funds simple lunar landers through fixed-price contracts.

NASA is considering commercial vehicles such as SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn 9x4 for later Artemis missions.

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has proposed monthly robotic lunar landings, annual crewed Moon missions, and a permanent lunar surface base.

Boeing is reportedly considering exiting the commercial space market because of $2 billion in losses from exceeding fixed-price caps.

The United States Space Force awarded Rocket Lab a $90 million contract to design, manufacture, integrate, and operate two geostationary orbit satellites.

Rocket Lab will serve as the prime contractor and end-to-end mission provider under its contract with the Space Systems Command.

The Heimdall payload was developed in-house by Rocket Lab Optical Systems after Rocket Lab acquired GEOST in 2025.

Rocket Lab’s geostationary orbit satellites will carry the Heimdall space domain awareness payload.

Rocket Lab will integrate the geostationary orbit payloads into its proprietary Lightning satellite bus, which has been modified for long-duration geostationary operations.

Rocket Lab reported $200.3 million in first-quarter revenue.

Rocket Lab’s stock price pushed past $135 following the revenue report and the national security contract announcement.

Monash University research fellow Sharan Banagiri led the analysis of GWTC-5.0.

Monash University professor Eric Thrane is a chief investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, known as OzGrav.

Shenzhou-23 was associated with a Long March 2F Y23 launch from Jiuquan at 15:08 UTC on May 24.

Odysseus Space targets intersatellite link capability for 2027.

Odysseus Space is a Luxembourg-based company developing laser communication solutions for space-to-ground data transfer.