A Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 12:00 a.m. (0400 UTC) April 1 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert. Insulation tiles fell away from the payload fairing as the rocket climbed ...

HELSINKI — China launched the new TJS-16 classified satellite on Saturday aboard a Long March 7A rocket, continuing the ...

Internationally, China is expected ... from the historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission commander Chun Wang, vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen ...

Private space companies now launch satellites ... Spacecraft launched include all vehicles that reach outer space. Upmass, measured in kilograms, is the payload carried into orbit on a spaceflight.

The 2025 Commercial Space Conference and Exhibition held its grand opening ceremony on Tuesday in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong ... medium-to-large liquid launch vehicles and liquid oxygen ...

The next closest competitor was China ... It's also impressive that the Space Force greenlit such a fast turnaround time for a national security payload. And launch pad turnaround, too.

Propellant loading ... a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Science News // 6 days ago Germany's Spectrum rocket launch scrubbed ...

Although the vehicle's first stage performed ... The rest of the world combined, including China and its growing space activity, will have a total of 19 orbital launch attempts.

I don’t think there’s ever been a completed launch vehicle waiting ... spacecraft while China is practising orbital dogfight manoeuvres. Global government investment in space jumped 10 per ...

Glance at the calendar and you’ll see that it says 2025, but this high-tech 4x4 SUV is turning back the clock by adding a ...