China launches new lunar communications satellite!
In the early hours of the 20th of March, a Long March 8 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 2 at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. Onboard the rocket were three satellites bound
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America returns to the Moon!
Last week on the 22nd, the United States of America returned to the surface of the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, which was fifty-two years ago. According to
China names its new crewed spacecraft!
Early on the 24th of February, the China Manned Space Engineering Office announced that it had selected the names for its two spacecraft that will be used for its crewed lunar exploration program.
Intuitive Machines takes aim on the Moon!
After a delay on the 14th of February, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A bound for the Moon, the first since Apollo 17! The Falcon 9 was carrying Intuitive
Chang'e 6 moves closer to launch
Recently the China National Space Administration announced that the Chang'e 6 lunar spacecraft had arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Wednesday, the 10th of January. Parts of the spacecraft
China launches Einstein Probe into orbit!
On the 9th of January at 15:03 pm, Beijing Time, a Long March 2C lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Einstein Probe to a 600-kilometer low Earth orbit.
Celebrating five years since Chang'e 4's historic landing!
It has been over five years since the Chang'e 4 lunar lander landed on the far side of the Moon. The lunar landing occurred at 02:26 am Coordinated Universal Time
JAXA's daring Mars mission set to launch in 2026
Slated to launch in November 2026, Japans Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) is planning on launching their most daring mission yet. The target of this mission? The two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos. MMX
Through ups and downs, humanity achieves 23 years straight in orbit
The last two decades have been quite the bumpy ride for humans. But throughout it, one thing has been constant: a continuous presence aboard quite possibly the world's best-known laboratory, the
Celebrating 20 years of Chinese Human Spaceflight
On the 15th of October 2003, The People's Republic of China became the third country to successfully launch a person into Earth orbit using its own spacecraft and launch vehicles. The
The Osiris-Rex Mission explained: what did we learn from it?
Launched on September 8, 2016, on ULA's Atlas V rocket, the Osiris-Rex mission dropped a capsule containing samples of a near-by asteroid nearly a month ago, on September 24th, 2023. Here’
Sputnik - Catalyst for the Space Age
In October 1957 the people of Earth became aware of a second satellite circling the planet, this one however was artificial and man-made. Sputnik-1 was the first artificial satellite launched from Earth on