China's crewed Moon landing program
China says it aims to land taikonauts on the Moon by 2030, using a plan that calls for two launches and a rendezvous in lunar orbit. The Long March-10 rocket, the Mengzhou crew spacecraft and the…
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NASA reopens the commercial Hubble servicing mission
NASA has asked industry for ideas on a commercial mission to service and possibly boost the Hubble Space Telescope; no bidder, mission scope or funding is known. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman…
Rocket Lab Electron
Rocket Lab's Electron has now flown 99 missions: the 98th, 'We're Not Hawking Around,' placed HawkEye 360's Cluster 16 and all three satellites in orbit, and the 99th, 'The Sea God Surveys,' launched…
Starship
Starship Flight 15 is now targeted for no earlier than November 12, after Booster 22 and Ship 42 completed static-fire tests; it is meant to attempt the first catch of both stages. SpaceX is also…
Artemis III
NASA has stacked the Artemis III core stage between its boosters and still aims for a summer 2027 launch. The 14-day Earth-orbit mission would dock Orion with both SpaceX and Blue Origin prototype…
Orbital data centers / space compute (Starmind lineage)
Google's Suncatcher prototype, launched October 1, booted four TPUs in orbit and ran its Gemma 4 model, returning a generated answer. A rival Indian orbital data center and a power-beaming prototype…
Starlink in Ukraine
Ukrainian officials say SpaceX slowed Starlink service used by military drones, with the order reported to come from the White House, and Ukrainian forces temporarily lost some access to Starshield,…
Falcon 9 retirement
SpaceX is winding down commercial Falcon 9 launches as Starship takes over, closing new commercial reservations and ending retail Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare bookings after the 2028 manifest,…
Amazon Leo: Ariane 6 consolidation + India market entry
Amazon Leo has produced over 1,000 satellites but has only about 400 in orbit, short of the 1,616 the FCC required by July, and regulators stripped its spectrum priority as a penalty. It has won…
Dream Chaser's FAA re-entry license for a Vandenberg return
The FAA has licensed Sierra Space's Dream Chaser to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and return to Vandenberg Space Force Base. The license covers only the return; the craft still has to launch, and no…