Irene Klotz
September 29, 2025

An artist’s rendering of Sierra Space’s expandable space station.

Credit: NASA

SYDNEY—NASA is delaying plans to issue a solicitation for the next phase of a public-private partnership program to spur development of one or more new space stations in low Earth orbit (LEO) while it assesses feedback from industry. The agency had planned to follow up a Sept. 5 draft announcement…

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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