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Japan announces plans to launch upgraded observation satellites on new flagship rocket's 3rd flight
A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries staff member stands next to the top of the first stage of a H3 rocket, inside the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Tobishima Plant in Tobishima, Aichi prefecture Thursday, March 21, 2024.

Second booster for first Ariane 6

Friday, 26 April 2024 13:17
Second booster for first Ariane 6 Image: Second booster for first Ariane 6
Transporting second booster for first Ariane 6 Image: Transporting second booster for first Ariane 6
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 26, 2024
ESA's Hera mission, aimed at planetary defense, will utilize a Mars flyby in March next year to gain velocity as it heads towards the Didymos binary asteroid system. During this maneuver, Hera will approach Mars within 6,000 km-closer than Mars' moons' orbits-and adjust its trajectory to closely observe Mars' moon Deimos and the Martian surface itself. The flyby details were discussed at t

Week in images: 22-26 April 2024

Friday, 26 April 2024 12:10
ESA astronaut class of 2022 graduation ceremony

Week in images: 22-26 April 2024

Discover our week through the lens

Earth from Space: Seychelles

Friday, 26 April 2024 07:00
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Seychelles, an island republic in the western Indian Ocean. Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Seychelles, an island republic in the western Indian Ocean.

Hop hop hooray

Friday, 26 April 2024 06:41
Celebrating the Hopper’s graduation Image: Celebrating the Hopper’s graduation
A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing's space program that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030.

The crew took off in a capsule atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's northwest at 8:59 pm local time !1259 GMT) Thursday.

By early Friday the spacecraft had "successfully docked" with the space station, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, citing the China Manned Space Agency.

The mission is led by Ye Guangfu, a fighter pilot and astronaut who was previously part of the Shenzhou-13 crew in 2021.

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