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Chinese company launches imaging satellite
Posted: Sat, Aug 26 12:18 PM ET (1618 GMT)
Chinese company Galactic Energy launched an imaging satellite early Friday. The company's Ceres-1 rocket lifted off at 12:59 a.m. Eastern from...

Rocket Lab reuses engine in Electron launch
Posted: Sat, Aug 26 12:15 PM ET (1615 GMT)
Rocket Lab launched a radar imaging satellite Wednesday night and made another step towards reusability. An Electron rocket lifted off at 7:45 pm EDT (...

North Korean spysat launch fails again
Posted: Sat, Aug 26 12:14 PM ET (1614 GMT)
For the second time in three months, a North Korean spy satellite has failed to reach orbit. A Chollima-1 rocket lifted off from a...

Chandrayaan-3 lands safely on the Moon
Posted: Sat, Aug 26 12:11 PM ET (1611 GMT)
India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon Wednesday morning. The spacecraft touched down in the south polar regions of the moon at...

Russia launches Progress cargo spacecraft to ISS
Posted: Sat, Aug 26 12:08 PM ET (1608 GMT)
Russia launched a Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Tuesday night. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at...

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Fri, Aug 25 7:15 PM ET (2315 GMT)
SpaceX launched a set of Starlink satellites early Tuesday. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:37 am EDT (0937...

Lockheed, Northrop win SDA satellite contracts
Posted: Fri, Aug 25 7:15 PM ET (2315 GMT)
The Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded contracts Monday to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for a new set of communications satellites. The...

Axiom Space raises $350 million
Posted: Fri, Aug 25 7:14 PM ET (2314 GMT)
Commercial space station developer Axiom Space has raised $350 million. The company said Monday its Series C round was led by Saudi Arabian investment bank...

China launches Earth observation satellite
Posted: Fri, Aug 25 7:13 PM ET (2313 GMT)
China launched an Earth observation satellite Sunday. A Long March 4C rocket lifted off at 1:45 pm EDT (1745 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite...

Luna-25 crashes on the Moon
Posted: Fri, Aug 25 7:12 PM ET (2312 GMT)
Russia's Luna-25 lunar lander crashed over the weekend while performing an orbital maneuver. Roscosmos said that the spacecraft encountered an "emergency situation" during...



news in brief
China launches enhanced Zhuque-2 rocket
Posted: Fri, Nov 29 7:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)

FCC approves Starlink direct-to-device services
Posted: Fri, Nov 29 7:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Fri, Nov 29 7:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)

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