On August 10, 2023, at 23:10 UTC, the Russian Luna 25 spacecraft launched to the Moon from Vostochny cosmodrome on top of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat-M upper stage. This is the first mission to explore the Earth satellite created by the Russian Federation: the previous spacecraft, Luna 24, was launched in 1976 by the Soviet Union. The entire future of the lunar program in Russia depends on whether this spacecraft will be able to make a soft landing near the south pole of the Moon.
It’s a busy week in spaceflight, especially for Russia. The week of Aug. 7 following…
While a lot of the focus when it comes to space travel beyond Earth orbit…
Over the last few weeks, China has remained busy with both launching rockets and announcing…
The first crewed Artemis mission is now the focus of NASA’s beyond-Earth orbit human spaceflight…
European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace teams have conducted the launch of the historic Jupiter…
SpaceX has used its Falcon 9 rocket to send a privately funded mission toward the…
The Artemis I mission, the first flight of the Orion spacecraft and SLS, is now…
NASA and the SLS teams have successfully launched the agency’s super heavy lift rocket which…
The launch countdown for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Artemis I mission…
SpaceX has launched South Korea’s first mission to the Moon on Thursday. A flight-proven Falcon…
Rocket Lab has launched the CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment)…
With the arrival of SLS and Orion at Pad-B on March 18, engineers and technicians…
A moment more than a decade in the making. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket…
Led by Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman, the newly announced Polaris program aims to demonstrate multiple…
The NASA VIPER rover – a precursor mission to human landings in the south polar…
Spaceflight Inc has announced “GEO Pathfinder,” a rideshare mission to geostationary orbit that will use…
New Zealand is now set to host the first launch of the Artemis Program, as…
To date, only Americans have travelled to the Moon. On Artemis 2, that will change…
Eight days after launching from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in southern China, the nation’s…
