China Launches Two Space Missions in One Day (Aug. 17) China executed back-to-back orbital launches on Sunday, August 17. The first saw a Long March-4C rocket lift off from Xichang at 4:55 p.m. local time, carrying the Shiyan-28B 02 satellite for space environment exploration and technology tests english.news.cn. Hours later, a modified Long March-6 rocket…
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NASA Crew Splashdown and ISS Updates (United States) Historic Pacific Landing: Four astronauts from NASA’s Crew-10 mission returned to Earth on Saturday after nearly five months aboard the ISS. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance splashed down off the coast of San Diego at 11:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 9 spacepolicyonline.com, marking NASA’s first Pacific Ocean crew…
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SpaceX packed a whirlwind of headline-grabbing developments into the first two days of August 2025. From a triumphant crewed launch dodging storm clouds, to a fiery Starship engine test in Texas, to new milestones (and concerns) for the ever-growing Starlink satellite network – here’s your comprehensive roundup of everything SpaceX in the past 48 hours.…
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Crew-11 Astronaut Launch Scrubbed, Then Success on Second Try NASA’s highly anticipated Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station faced a last-minute scrub on July 31 due to an unexpected weather violation. Mission control called off the launch just over a minute before liftoff, when a bank of cumulus clouds drifted within a 10-mile safety…
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