
TIANZHOU-6 CARGO SPACECRAFT REACHES CHINA’S TIANGONG SPACE STATION - An upgraded Tianzhou cargo spacecraft docked at China’s Tiangong space station Wednesday ahead of a new crewed mission to the orbital outpost.Ī Long March 7 rocket lifted off from the coastal Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 9:22 a.m. SPACEX LAUNCHES 51 STARLINK SATELLITES, LANDS ROCKET ON SHIP AT SEA - SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites toward orbit and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (May 10).Ī Falcon 9 rocket carrying 51 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on schedule today at 4:09 p.m. The cylindrical spacecraft dubbed Haven-1 is the latest platform planned as a replacement to th. SPACE STARTUP PARTNERS WITH SPACEX TO LAUNCH COMMERCIAL SPACE STATION - Vast, a startup backed by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, is aiming to launch a school bus-sized space station to orbit by late 2025 with some help from partner SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket firm. Private firm Leolabs, which provides space situational awareness data through its global network of radars for trackin. MoreĬHINA’S SPACEPLANE CONDUCTED PROXIMITY AND CAPTURE MANEUVERS WITH SUBSATELLITE, DATA SUGGESTS - China’s secretive spaceplane may have performed multiple recaptures of an object it released into orbit during its recently completed second flight as part of on-orbit testing. RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS MOVE VITAL RADIATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IN 5-HOUR SPACEWALK - Two Russian cosmonauts have completed a spacewalk to activate a radiator that they earlier helped relocate outside of the International Space Station.Įxpedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin, both with the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos, successful.
