China has moved the Chang'e-7 lunar probe and its Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket to the launch area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan Province, clearing a major step toward liftoff. The China Manned Space Agency said the mission is scheduled for launch at

LandSpace successfully soft-landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on a downrange pad on August 18 after delivering a payload to orbit, marking China's first recovery of an orbital-class booster on landing legs. The feat came on only the second flight of the methalox

SpaceX's Starship prototype Ship 40 was towed into a protected bay at Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, on Tuesday, following a weeks long salvage operation. The 52 metre vehicle had been floating in the ocean since late July, when it splashed down after a

SpaceX plans to build a dedicated Starship testing site at Kennedy Space Center, according to a new permit that outlines a 101-acre development called "Project Ignition." The facility would extend the company's Roberts Road operations and support static fire testing of the Starship rocket, work

Arianespace and the European Space Agency have paused the ICARUS carbon-composite upper stage upgrade for Ariane 6 to concentrate resources on ramping up production of the rocket, internal European space sector reports confirmed on August 11. The move signals how tight the production situation has become, with Europe choosing

Rocket Lab has unveiled GHOST, a globally deployable containerized launch system designed to enable suborbital and orbital launches from any location worldwide. The system packages complete rockets, launch infrastructure, ground support, and range control into standard shipping containers, giving Rocket Lab a launch-anywhere, launch-anytime capability. Its first deployment

Katalyst Space Technologies says it has arrested a multi-axis spin on its Link servicing spacecraft, a step toward resuming a mission to boost the decaying orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The recovery keeps alive a $30 million effort that must begin before Swift falls to

A Chinese Long March 7A rocket exploded roughly 85 seconds after liftoff from Wenchang on August 10, destroying its payload in the vehicle's second failure in the type's history. Amateur footage captured near the coastal spaceport showed the explosion, though Chinese authorities had not reported the

The effort to tow the 171-foot-tall Ship to shore in Western Australia is unlikely to succeed, leaving the vehicle potentially lost at sea. SpaceX's attempt to recover the Starship upper stage from its 13th test flight is "not looking good", Elon Musk tweeted on

A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon on Wednesday, August 5th, at 06:35 UTC, and South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter passed over the site shortly afterward to capture the first images of the fresh crater. The collision marks a documented case of commercial launch

The private LINK spacecraft, launched to save NASA's Swift space telescope from a decaying orbit, has run into serious trouble of its own and now requires recovery. Katalyst Space Technologies, the Arizona company that built and operates LINK, reported progress in stabilizing the vehicle, but the setback has

Blue Origin has identified a liquid oxygen valve in one of its BE-4 engines as the cause of the May 28 static-fire explosion that destroyed a New Glenn rocket and severely damaged its Cape Canaveral launch pad. Because the BE-4 also powers United Launch Alliance's

Tesla Cybertrucks will serve as the emergency evacuation vehicles for the upcoming Crew-13 mission, replacing the military-spec escape vehicles historically used at SpaceX launch pads. NASA and SpaceX jointly determined the pickups can safely carry astronauts and ground personnel away from the launch pad in an emergency, embedding