October 21st, 2025
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Rocket remainders from China’s Long March 8A booster launched on October 16 have been picked up by a Philippine Navy missile boat. The debris with made-in-China markings were recovered off Barangay Rio Tuba in Bataraza, Palawan following maritime operations in the West Philippine Sea. Drop zones The Long March 8A rocket was launched from the […]
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LandSpace, a Chinese private space company, is gearing up for the maiden flight of its partially reusable rocket, the Zhuque-3. The booster has entered a critical phase after the completion of joint fueling drills and static ignition tests, laying the groundwork for the rocket’s official launch and first-stage recovery later this year. It is set […]
Chinese scientists have identified remnants from meteorites in lunar samples rocketed to Earth by the country’s Chang’e-6 mission. The finding sheds light on the Moon’s past and material transfer in the solar system. Led by a research team from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, scientists identified impact remnants […]
There is increasing space-based shenanigans going on up stairs in the heavens. Are anti-satellites (ASATs) becoming the new “must-have” technology for spacefaring nations – like China, Russia, India, as well as the United States? What’s at stake, what to strike, and why? Those are issues being thrashed out as countries […]
Australian police force officers are dealing with what appears to be space debris. Over the weekend, a hunk of smoking junk was found by mine workers nearly 19 miles east of Newman, Western Australia. The Australian Space Agency is also carrying out “further technical analysis to identify its origin.” The mine workers reported the object […]
China’s Shenzhou-20 space station crew has been in orbit more than 170 days and are preparing for returning to Earth, slated for late October. Now onboard China’s Tiangong space station, Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie, continue a full agenda of space research tasks. Since entering the space station in late April, the taikonaut […]
The Launch of Rocket Lab by Peter Griffin, with introduction by Sir Peter Beck, Published by Blackwell & Ruth and distributed by Abrams Books; 312 pages; Hardcover, $60.00. This stunning, large format book, tells the engaging story of Rocket Lab and how Peter Beck founded this powerhouse of an enterprise. As a self-taught rocket engineer […]
Future missions dedicated to searching for live today on Mars will require a clear understanding of the organic biosignature degradation processes in the planet’s shallow icy subsurface. “We found that amino acids in the surface ice on Mars would survive over 50 million years of cosmic ray exposure, which is far greater than the expected […]
Once again, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) has posted an advisory regarding rocket debris stemming from launch of a Chinese rocket. Leftovers from China’s Long March 8A booster were projected by PhilSA to have fallen within identified drop zones approximately 118 nautical miles away from El Nido, Palawan, 137 nautical miles away from Puerto Princesa, […]
It appears that China’s Xinjishu Yanzheng 7 (XJY-7) spacecraft made a stunning sky show as it reentered October 16 over Tenerife, Canary Islands at around 3 a.m. local time. The nearly 3-ton (2,700 kilograms) satellite was lofted in late December 2020 as New Technology Experiment No. 7 (XJY ) developed by China Aerospace […]
