Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
Payload reports: Uncover the plans of the Axiom Space University Alliance to tackle research challenges and support the transition to commercial space stations.
Last Updated: Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, 6:26 AM PDT
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Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: It was the seventh launch and landing for this particular booster, which previously sent the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane to orbit on its latest mission.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: Stratospheric pseudo-satellites are shedding their reputation as fringe experiments as governments and industry step up demand, according to executives closing in on commercial services for their high-altitude platform stations (HAPS).
TechCrunch
• Aria Alamalhodaei
By TechCrunch: Icarus Robotics wants to liberate astronauts from time-sucking logistics labor.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: Liftoff of the uncrewed mission is scheduled for 9 a.m. ET today (Sept. 18).
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Astra is targeting next summer for the first flight of its Rocket 4 vehicle as the company prepares to reenter the launch market.
NASA Spaceflight
• Chris Bergin; Ryan Caton
By NASA Spaceflight: Rocket Lab—the operator of the world’s second-busiest orbital rocket—has been touting its vision for a….
Reuters
• Joey Roulette
By Reuters: NASA on Wednesday night resumed plans to moor an uncrewed cargo craft to the International Space Station after resolving an early engine-shutdown issue it said was caused by a "conservative safeguard" in the vehicle's software settings.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
russianspaceweb.com
• Anatoly Zak
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
Space.com
• Elizabeth Howell
SpaceNews.com
• News Release
SpaceNews.com
• SpaceNews Editor
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
