China expands space capabilities with new lunar and deep space milestones
Tuesday, 21 October 2025 01:30
China has recorded a series of landmark achievements in its ongoing quest for space exploration, spanning its crewed space station program, lunar far-side sample return, and interplanetary missions. These milestones underscore the nation's growing capabilities in orbital operations, scientific research, and deep space engineering during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025).
The Shenz Miniature chip spectrometer opens new window on the universe
Tuesday, 21 October 2025 01:30
Chinese scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking miniature spectrometer that combines ultra-high resolution with a wide field of view, enabling faster and sharper exploration of the universe than ever before.
Developed at Tsinghua University's Department of Electrical Engineering, the new technology - known as RAFAEL in English and Yuheng in Chinese - integrates a full spectroscopic syste Duffy says NASA will open Artemis 3 lander contract to competition
Monday, 20 October 2025 19:50
US soliciting new bids for Moon mission amid SpaceX delays: NASA chief
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Starship could cut the travel time to Uranus in half
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Remember the moon rover? Teams test a possible Artemis version
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America needs a ‘Plan B’ to reach the moon first
Monday, 20 October 2025 12:00
China is on track to land its first crew on the lunar surface by 2030 and establish a base at the resource-rich south pole — a site that offers continuous sunlight, access to water ice and control of the most valuable real estate beyond Earth.
Argonaut in LUNA
Monday, 20 October 2025 11:57
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A European lunar landscape: a 1:1 model of ESA’s Argonaut lunar lander at Europe’s Moon on Earth, LUNA. LUNA: Europe’s Moon on Earth
Monday, 20 October 2025 10:18
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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer walks across the dusty terrain of LUNA, Europe's Moon on Earth. Nearby, ESA's Argonaut lander mock-up stands ready as he carefully navigates the simulated regolith - the dust, soil and rock on the Moon's surface. Alongside a fellow operator, he rehearses a moonwalk under the harsh glare of Sun simulators that mimic lunar lighting to test scientific tools designed to analyse lunar soil and rock.
ESA's robotic explorers, Interact and Spot, join the scene. Spot, the agile robot dog, picks up a sample while Interact, a wheeled robotic arm, supports this rehearsal of autonomous
Sentinel-1D fuelled and ready for encapsulation
Monday, 20 October 2025 08:17
The launch campaign of the next satellite to join the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is progressing on schedule for launch on Tuesday, 4 November, on board an Ariane 6 rocket.
SpaceX launches rockets from opposite coasts, ties mission total
Monday, 20 October 2025 07:16
SpaceX launched a pair of Falcon 9 rockets from opposite coasts Sunday, sending a total of 56 satellites into low-Earth orbit, adding to the growing Starlink commercial fleet.
The first launch occurred at 1:39 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral.
Space Force Station and the second lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California at 12:24 p.m. PDT.
The first launch mar 28 Starlink satellites lift on 130th mission of SpaceX's Falcon 9
Monday, 20 October 2025 07:16
SpaceX set a milestone Thursday morning as it marked the 130th launch of its Falcon 9 rocket.
The Falcon 9 that launched 28 Starlink satellites took off at 5:57 a.m. EDT Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and deployed the devices into low-Earth orbit some 64 minutes after leaving the planet.
It represented Falcon 9's 130th flight of the year, only 
China resumes launches for Thousand Sails constellation, CAS Space launches new international payload
Sunday, 19 October 2025 14:30
Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the ice
Sunday, 19 October 2025 07:54
Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the Red Planet. By recreating Mars-like conditions in the lab, a team of researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Penn State demonstrated that fragments of the molecules that make up proteins in E. coli bacteria, if present in Mars' permafrost and ice caps, could remain