The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in returning samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its Chang Zheng 3B/E (CZ-3B/E) rocket launched successfully from Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China on Wednesday, May 28, at 17:31 UTC.
This month has seen the launches of three different commercial Chinese rockets, and the return-to-flight…
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After a planned eight day mission to the ISS that launched in June 2024, Butch…
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The European Space Agency’s seventh Earth Explorer mission, Biomass, launched on Tuesday aboard an Arianespace…
China has launched its ninth crewed mission to the Tiangong space station, coinciding with the…
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Italian company D-Orbit has been launching customer payloads aboard its Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) for…
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) is determined to debut its RFA One rocket by the end…
The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic…
The fourth crewed space mission of 2025 is now underway. Soyuz MS-27 launched successfully at…
The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images and data for its…
French company MaiaSpace has a good shot at becoming the first European launch provider to…
SpaceX launched its next private human spaceflight mission, Fram2, from Florida on Monday evening. The…
Five Falcon 9 missions launched this week, including the first-ever crewed mission to a polar…
Isar Aerospace, based near Munich, Germany, made the first-ever launch attempt of its Spectrum two-stage…
The Shenzhou-19 crew recently conducted their third spacewalk this month as the China National Space…
