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Launch preparations for Gravity-1 aboard the Defu-15002 sea platform. Credit: Orienspace

Commercial, Launch, News

Launch startup Orienspace secures B+ round funding, targets test flight

by Andrew JonesAugust 31, 2025August 31, 2025

Aerial view of CAS Space's Kinetica-2 first-stage hot fire test, showing flames and thick smoke rising from a test stand nestled in forested hills.

Commercial, News, Policy & Politics

China’s Guangdong province lays out ambitious commercial space objectives

by Andrew JonesAugust 28, 2025August 28, 2025

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Commercial, Opinion

Modernizing the satellite supply chain by breaking the solar power bottleneck

by Dan RobitzskiAugust 27, 2025August 26, 2025

Civil, Commercial, Launch, News

China is about to start trying to land and reuse its rockets

by Andrew JonesAugust 25, 2025August 25, 2025

The Chang'e-6 lander and ascender on the far side of the moon. Credit: CNSA

Civil, Opinion, Policy & Politics

NASA needs bold leadership — or we’ll be watching on TV while Beijing lands on the moon

by Dan RobitzskiAugust 22, 2025August 21, 2025

A Long March 12 rocket lifts off from the Wenchang Commercial Launch Site in Hainan, China, on August 4, 2025, trailing a bright plume of exhaust and thick clouds of smoke against a twilight sky. The rocket is carrying a batch of low Earth orbit broadband satellites developed by GalaxySpace.

Civil, Commercial, Launch, News

New rocket plans continue to emerge to support China’s growing space ambitions

by Andrew JonesAugust 22, 2025August 22, 2025

A white Kinetica-1 rocket operated by Chinese launch company CAS Space ascends into a clear blue sky, leaving behind a bright flame and thick plume of brownish exhaust. The rocket has just lifted off from a desert launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. In the foreground are low, rectangular buildings with blue roofs, a large white hangar, and tall metal towers used for communications. The barren desert landscape stretches flat into the distance under an open sky.

Commercial, Launch, News

China’s CAS Space launches first Latin American payloads on Kinetica-1 rocket

by Andrew JonesAugust 19, 2025August 19, 2025

A Long March 6A rocket lifts off at night from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China, sending a batch of Guowang broadband satellites into orbit. Bright exhaust and thick clouds of smoke billow around the launch pad against the dark sky.

Civil, Launch, Military, News

China launches test low-inclination satellite, new Guowang broadband group

by Andrew JonesAugust 18, 2025August 18, 2025

Exhaust billows from a tethered static fire test of a Long March 10 first-stage test article at the LC-301 launch pad, Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island, China, Aug. 15, 2025.

China conducts first seven-engine static fire test for moon rocket

by Andrew JonesAugust 15, 2025August 15, 2025

Commercial, Launch, News

Chinese launch startup Landspace suffers Zhuque-2 failure

by Andrew JonesAugust 15, 2025August 15, 2025