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Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) has successfully launched four private astronauts from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS). The Ax-2 crew is now in orbit following a 5:37 p.m. EDT liftoff. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is now anticipated to dock to the space-facing port of the ISS Harmony module. around 9:16 a.m. (EDT) on Monday, May 22.

The President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Australia have reached an agreement-in-principle on Technology Safeguards. The White House disclosed this partnership through a press release on both Nation's Joint Leaders’ Statement.

NASA has selected Blue Origin to develop a human landing system for the agency’s Artemis V mission to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before, uncovering more scientific discoveries and preparing for future astronaut missions to Mars.

Terran Orbital Corporation and W. P. Carey have broke ground on a 94,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art satellite manufacturing facility at 4 Goodyear in Irvine, California. In partnership with Terran Orbital, W. P. Carey will redevelop one of its outdated office properties into a new Class A industrial facility. As a result, it will serve as Terran Orbital’s fifth production facility. Demolition of the existing building commenced in February 2023, and the project will tentatively end in January 2024.

This Space Café Black Ops will feature Namrata Goswami , an independent scholar on space policy and Great Power Politics, in conversation with Dr. Emma Gatti, Space Analyst and Broadcaster and correspondent of SpaceWatch.Global for Italy. Ep. 4: Russia and Japan: Capable partners in differing space orders

The Karman Project has announced 15 global space leaders selected for the 2023 edition of the Karman Fellowship program. The 15 Fellows of 2023 selected from over 300 candidates represent 12 nationalities and 6 continents, who will be joining a growing network of Karman Alumni.

The 2023 edition of Space Resources Week (SRW) took place on 19-21 April in Luxembourg and online. The conference demonstrated a focused European scientific capacity building, with partnerships from North America to Japan.

In this  Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with Dr. Thomas Sinn, CEO and Founder of DCUBED,  a Munich-based developer of actuators and deployable structures tailored for nano-satellites and the commercial space industry, about the "small" things that matter in space and their new location in the US.

Space Systems Command (SSC), the US Space Force’s field command responsible for acquiring and delivering resilient war fighting capabilities in and from space, announced on the 17th of May that they have successfully delivered the second and final spaceflight-ready payload to Japan. 

SpaceX has engaged NASA's former human spaceflight boss Kathy Lueders to help oversee the development of the company's moon and Mars rocket called Starship, according to Reuters. This represents another essential hire for SpaceX as it aims to develop and use Starship for landing NASA astronauts on the moon within the next decade.