In this week’s Launch Roundup, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday (May 22), bringing four astronauts on Axiom Space’s second private mission to the orbiting facility. Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson commands the eight-day Ax-2 mission, which was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX has filed a motion in US Federal District Court to intervene as a defendant in a lawsuit that environmental groups filed against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in an attempt to void the agency’s approval for the company to launch Starship/Super Heavy rockets from Boca Chica, Texas.

In this week’s Launch Roundup, new crews and cargo ships are scheduled to visit the International Space Station and China’s Tiangong orbital outpost this month.

In this week’s Launch Roundup, Rocket Lab launched two satellites for NASA that will provide valuable data on hurricanes and tropical cyclones on Sunday, May 7 (Monday, May 8 in New Zealand).

In this week’s Launch Roundup, SpaceX leads all launch providers thus far in 2023 as the Elon Musk-led company has averaged one flight roughly every four days.

A group of five environmental and cultural-heritage non-profits has sued the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) claiming the agency broke environmental law when it approved SpaceX’s Starbase spaceport for launches of the company’s Starship/Super Heavy rocket.

In today’s biz briefs, L3Harris gets a big contract, Maxar shareholders vote to go private, Ursa Major and Orbit Fab raise fresh funds, Rocket Lab will re-fly an engine, and ESA wants your ideas for how to use lunar resources.

SpaceX will lease Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket flights, the U.S. Space Force announced. It will be the fifth launch pad operated by the company.

The question of whether SpaceX’s Starship maiden launch last Thursday was a success or a failure is a matter of perspective.

Welcome to this week’s S-SPACⁱ. Rocket Lab has entered the hypersonic market, BigBear.ai stockholders resells shares, and three space SPACs had payloads aboard SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare mission.