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China's Orienspace's Gravity-1 rocket completed its successful maiden flight on 11 January 2024, debuting on a new mobile sea platform in the Yellow Sea while breaking records as both the world's largest solid-fuel carrier rocket and China's most powerful commercial launch vehicle to date (as of early 2024).
China's second lunar sample return mission, and world's first from the far side of the Moon, targeting southern area of Apollo basin (~43º S, 154º W). The mission is expected to take 53 days from launch to return module touchdown. [156] 6 May 18:14 [161] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 6-57 Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: Starlink × 23 ...
NROL-167 Mission (NRO's Proliferated Architecture Mission). The Fourth of eleven dedicated launches of SpaceX/Northrop built Starshield satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. [132] 100th Falcon 9 launch in 2024. 26 October 21:47 [179] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 10-8 Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: Starlink × 22 SpaceX: Low ...
A record-extending launch. Tuesday 19 November 2024 18:43, Anthony Cuthbertson. Today’s launch will be 119th rocket that SpaceX has sent to space this year, marking a new record for the private ...
A SpaceX rocket will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday afternoon, carrying 46 of the aerospace company’s Starlink satellites into orbit. The launch is scheduled for 2:40 p.m ...
The space program of the People's Republic of China is about the activities in outer space conducted and directed by the People's Republic of China.The roots of the Chinese space program trace back to the 1950s, when, with the help of the newly allied Soviet Union, China began development of its first ballistic missile and rocket programs in response to the perceived American (and, later ...
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) [1] also known as Base 25 (Chinese: 二十五基地), is a People's Republic of China space and defense launch facility . It is situated in Kelan County , Xinzhou , Shanxi Province and is the second of four launch sites having been founded in March 1966 and coming into full operation in 1968.
A Chinese court sentenced U.S. pastor David Lin to life in prison in 2009, but he's been released ahead of China's Thanksgiving-like Mid-Autumn Festival. China frees 68-year-old U.S. pastor David ...