Tag: Axiom
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What’s the deal with spacesuits for the Moon? Will they be ready in time?
After the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission earlier this month, focus turned to what comes next in NASA’s roadmap to return humans to the Moon. The biggest question concerned the readiness of lunar landers, the complex and essential machines needed to take astronauts down to the lunar surface and back up to orbit.…
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No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations
Most elements of a major NASA event this week that laid out spaceflight plans for the coming decade were well received: a Moon base, a focus on less talk and more action, and working with industry to streamline regulations so increased innovation can propel the United States further into space. However, one aspect of this…
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Vast and Axiom awarded new private missions to ISS, continue work on commercial space stations
With NASA awarding back-to-back Private Astronaut Missions to aerospace companies Vast Space and Axiom Space in early 2026, NASA continues to foster and accelerate growth in commercial low-Earth orbit. The new missions are expected to launch in 2027, with NASA and SpaceX partnering with the companies to train, launch, and return four-person crews to and…
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How to design a space station: Meet the Seattle company that’s helping define the look of the final frontier
This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing Teague, a Seattle-based design and innovation firm that advises space companies such as Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Voyager Technologies on how…
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Vast completes Haven-1 structural testing, launches pathfinder mission
With NASA set to decommission the International Space Station (ISS) in 2030, Vast is racing to launch the first commercial space station, which it hopes will ultimately replace the ISS. The company has now completed an important milestone in the production of its first space station. Vast is a space station company founded in 2021…
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Artemis spacesuits tested as existing ISS suits are showing their age
As the Artemis program works toward its first lunar landing on the Artemis III mission later this decade, new lunar spacesuits are finally being tested by Axiom Space. Meanwhile, the existing spacesuits aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are showing their age. A new inspector general report detailed risks to the Station’s extra vehicular activity…
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The Space Traffic Report: Starlink, ISS docking, and upcoming Falcon 9 & Kuiper launches
This past week marked a relatively quiet period for orbital launches, but there was still plenty of movement above Earth — from a new batch of Starlink satellites joining the constellation, to supply missions coming and going from two different space stations. Here’s your weekly rundown of what moved in orbit and what to watch…
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Launch Roundup: Launch manifest remains busy as 2025’s halfway point approaches
With summer and winter for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres now in full swing, the halfway point of 2025 is fast approaching, and the worldwide launch manifest continues to be as busy as ever. SpaceX has launched four Falcon 9 missions this week, with a private crewed mission to the International Space Station and three…
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Axiom Mission 4 launches atop Falcon 9 on new Crew Dragon Grace
SpaceX, along with Axiom Space, launched its fourth private crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, June 25, at 2:31 AM EDT (06:31 UTC) atop Falcon 9 and the newly-named Crew Dragon Grace. The mission had been postponed following the discovery of leaks on both the launch vehicle and the Station’s Zvezda module.…
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Launch Roundup: Missions launched from the U.S., China, and Russia
On the heels of a busy launch week, this week saw a number of launches – and attempts – from around the globe. SpaceX was expected to launch five Falcon 9 missions, including a rideshare and the delayed Axiom-4 crewed mission. However, Axiom-4 was pushed back from June 22 for additional analysis and is now…