NASA announced the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station will launch on October 1, with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Teterytinov aboard. The flight uses a Crew Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 18:10 Moscow time.

Separately, NASA stated that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on August 30, has sufficient fuel reserves to operate for at least 22 years, more than double its original 10-year design life. The telescope carries an advanced coronagraph to directly image planets in narrow orbits, including Jupiter-like worlds. NASA confirmed in September 2024 that Roman transmitted first test data from its Wide Field Instrument while en route to the L2 Lagrange point.

The James Webb Space Telescope, meanwhile, continues to enable studies of exoplanet atmospheres and weather, similar to how meteorologists forecast on Earth. In 2022, JWST observed the centaur Chariklo during a stellar occultation - the first such occultation planned specifically for the telescope.