NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station on Tuesday after launching aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (14:47 UTC) — 7:47 p.m. local time (14:47 UTC) — from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their arrival brings the orbiting laboratory's crew to 10 for approximately the next two weeks.

The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESA's technical site in the Netherlands, where they met the team behind the European Service Module that powered their Orion spacecraft around the Moon and safely back to Earth. The visit underscores the deepening transatlantic partnership on lunar exploration and provided an opportunity for the crew to thank the engineers responsible for the critical propulsion and life-support module.

Voyager Technologies has completed its acquisition of lunar delivery and rocketry company Astrobotic Technology, positioning itself as a fully integrated commercial lunar platform. The closing coincides with NASA awarding Astrobotic (now under Voyager) a $298M (€272M) contract for two new lunar lander missions under the agency's Moon Base program. Under the award, Astrobotic's Peregrine-2 will launch in 2028 and deliver a suite of three NASA-directed payloads to a landing site near the Gruithuisen Domes on the near side of the Moon.

The Republic of Serbia will sign the Artemis Accords at 5:00 p.m. EDT (21:00 UTC) on Thursday, July 16, during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Serbia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić and U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Wesley Brooks for the signing, further expanding the growing roster of international signatories to the multilateral framework for peaceful lunar exploration.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) (Space Development Agency) has awarded contracts worth $1.75 billion (€1.60 billion) to build 36 satellites as part of the Pentagon's Golden Dome missile defence shield. Announced on July 13, the satellites will form a low-Earth orbit constellation for missile tracking under Tranche 3 of SDA's missile defence, warning, and tracking layer. The awards represent a significant expansion of the U.S. military's space-based sensor architecture for detecting and tracking hypersonic and ballistic threats.