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25.05.2026 - 13:49 [ China Daily ]

Shenzhou XXIII astronauts enter Tiangong space station

The Shenzhou XXIII crew has entered the Tiangong space station and met with the outgoing Shenzhou XXI astronauts.

The new arrivals — mission commander and spaceflight engineer Colonel Zhu Yangzhu, spacecraft pilot Colonel Zhang Zhiyuan, and science payload specialist Lai Ka-ying — were launched by a Long March 2F carrier rocket at 11:08 pm Sunday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.

After flying about three and a half hours, their spaceship docked with the front port on the Tianhe core module, the central piece of the Chinese space station, at 2:45 am Monday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

25.05.2026 - 13:38 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Vorbereitungen auf Mondmission: China schickt drei Astronauten zu Weltraumstation

(May 24, 2026)

Drei Raumfahrer sind in Richtung der chinesischen Raumstation „Tiangong“ gestartet. Das Raumschiff „Shenzhou-23“ mit den drei Astronauten an Bord hob vom Weltraumbahnhof Jiuquan im chinesischen Teil der Wüste Gobi ab. Ins All befördert wurde die Kapsel von der Trägerrakete „Langer Marsch 2-F“.

Im Rahmen der Mission soll erstmals ein chinesischer Raumfahrer ein ganzes Jahr lang auf der Raumstation bleiben – ihre dreiköpfige Besatzung wird üblicherweise alle sechs Monate ausgetauscht. Dies wird von Peking als wesentlicher Schritt in den chinesischen Bestrebungen betrachtet, bis zum Jahr 2030 Menschen zum Mond zu schicken.

11.02.2026 - 15:56 [ Arianespace.com ]

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07.03.2025 - 09:19 [ Fox News ]

SpaceX Starship megarocket upper stage lost again during 8th test flight; booster catch is successful

Unfortunately, history repeated itself when Starship‘s upper stage made it into space only to start spinning uncontrollably before losing contact and breaking apart, sending debris cascading back to earth early Thursday evening.

One of the goals of the flight was to catch the Super Heavy booster using the chopsticks on the launch tower, which was completed successfully.

07.03.2025 - 09:16 [ CNN ]

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft explodes midflight for a second time, disrupting Florida air traffic

A SpaceX Starship spacecraft, the upper portion of the most powerful launch system ever built, exploded during its eighth test flight Thursday, disrupting air traffic and marking the second consecutive failure for the vehicle this year.

The uncrewed Starship mission lifted off at 5:30 p.m. CT (6:30 p.m. ET) from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas, with the spacecraft riding atop a 232-foot-tall (71-meter-tall) Super Heavy rocket booster.

13.10.2024 - 18:40 [ VideoFromSpace / Youtube ]

Replay! SpaceX launches Starship on 5th flight, booster catch successful

SpaceX launched Starship for 5th time on Oct. 13, 2024 from Starbase in south Texas. The Super Heavy booster was caught by the launch tower‘s ‚chopsticks‘ shortly after separation from Starship.

13.10.2024 - 18:34 [ CNBC ]

SpaceX’s Starship rocket completes fifth test flight, lands booster in dramatic catch

The company successfully used the arms of its launch tower to catch the rocket’s booster, a major milestone toward SpaceX’s goal of making Starship a fully reusable rocket system.
Starship continued on into space, traveling halfway around the world before splashing down in the Indian Ocean.

11.09.2024 - 02:05 [ The Launch Pad / Youtube ]

LIVE! SpaceX Polaris Dawn Launch

Watch LIVE as SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn on its multi-day mission to orbit, which will see Dragon and its crew fly to the highest Earth orbit ever flown since the Apollo program and participate in the first-ever extravehicular activity (EVA) by commercial astronauts wearing SpaceX-developed EVA suits.

21.10.2023 - 21:45 [ CNN ]

Psyche mission launches as NASA’s first trip to a metal world

(October 13, 2023)

To accomplish the rest of the mission, the van-size spacecraft will rely on its new solar electric propulsion system, powered by Hall-effect thrusters, Oh said. The thrusters will utilize the spacecraft’s large solar arrays and “use electricity to ionize xenon gas and accelerate those charged ions through an electric field to very, very high speeds,” Oh said. (…)

Also along for the ride is the Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, or DSOC. Occurring during the first two years of the journey to Psyche, it will be NASA’s most distant experiment of high-bandwidth laser communications, testing the sending and receiving of data to and from Earth using an invisible near-infrared laser.

27.08.2023 - 03:15 [ CNN ]

SpaceX, NASA launch four astronauts from four countries

The crew is riding aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance capsule on the mission, dubbed Crew-7. The spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:27 a.m. ET Saturday.

The four astronauts on the mission include NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, who is serving as mission commander; Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen representing the European Space Agency; Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA; and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos.

28.08.2021 - 19:32 [ TASS ]

Dragon launch with cargo for ISS canceled due to weather conditions

The US launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Dragon spacecraft, has been cancelled due to weather conditions, the American company SpaceX twitted on Saturday.

04.08.2021 - 17:52 [ Xinhuanet ]

China sends two multimedia satellites into orbit

The launch was the 382nd flight mission for the Long March series carrier rockets.

22.07.2021 - 09:02 [ Xinhuanet ]

Russia launches its largest space module to ISS

The launch of Nauka was originally scheduled for 2007 but has repeatedly been delayed due to technical problems. The module‘s systems have since been modernized and underwent repairs.

09.04.2021 - 11:00 [ France24 ]

Three-man Soyuz flight honouring Gagarin blasts off for ISS

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei lifted off from Russia‘s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at the expected time of 0742 GMT, footage broadcast by NASA TV showed, with docking expected at 1107 GMT.

15.11.2020 - 16:58 [ France24 ]

SpaceX astronauts prepare for lift-off in first ‘operational’ flight to ISS

Three Americans — Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker — and Japan‘s Soichi Noguchi will blast off at 7:27 pm Sunday (0027 GMT Monday) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

06.11.2020 - 14:42 [ Xinhuanet ]

China sends 13 satellites into orbit with single rocket

The satellites, including 10 commercial remote sensing satellites developed by Argentine company Satellogic, blasted off atop a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 11:19 a.m. (Beijing Time).

14.10.2020 - 13:40 [ U.S.News ]

Russian-US Crew Launches on Fast Track to the Space Station

For the first time, they tried a two-orbit approach and docked with the space station in just a little over three hours after lift-off. Previously it took twice as long for crews to reach the station.

15.09.2020 - 19:20 [ Xinhuanet ]

China sends nine satellites into orbit by sea launch

Nine satellites, belonging to the Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 group, are launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at the Yellow Sea, on Sept. 15, 2020. China successfully sent nine satellites into planned orbit at the Yellow Sea Tuesday. The nine satellites blasted off atop a Long March-11 carrier rocket, China‘s first sea-launched rocket, at 9:23 a.m. (Beijing Time).

05.07.2020 - 15:00 [ Spaceflight Now ]

Rocket Lab satellite launch fails before reaching orbit

Carrying satellites from the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, the Electron launcher lifted off from Rocket Lab’s privately-run spaceport on New Zealand’s North Island at 5:19:36 p.m. EDT (2119:36 GMT).

24.06.2020 - 00:50 [ Space News ]

China launches final satellite to complete Beidou system, booster falls downrange

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) confirmed the Long March 3B launch vehicle had successfully placed the Beidou-3 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit shortly after. The satellite was later reported catalogued in a 218 x 35,784-kilometer orbit.

11.06.2020 - 14:15 [ CGTN ]

China successfully launches new ocean observation satellite

A Long March-2C rocket, carrying the satellite HY-1D, lifted off at 2:31 a.m. (Beijing Time), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA)

30.05.2020 - 15:45 [ NBC / Youtube ]

Live: SpaceX, NASA Launch U.S. Astronauts To International Space Station | NBC News

Watch live coverage as Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA make a second attempt at liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule with two U.S. astronauts. This is the first mission of its kind to the International Space Station in nearly a decade.

30.05.2020 - 02:44 [ NASA / Youtube ]

What‘s the Status of NASA and SpaceX‘s Mission to Launch Astronauts to Space?

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 3:22 p.m. EDT Saturday, May 30, for the launch of the first commercially built and operated American rocket and spacecraft carrying astronauts to the space station.

28.05.2020 - 00:00 [ The Hill ]

SpaceX postpones manned mission to space station amid weather concerns

SpaceX scrubbed plans to launch the first American astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil on Wednesday as thunderstorms tore through Florida’s Space Coast, temporarily thwarting a highly anticipated test that could determine the future of American space flight.

Astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken were slated to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Crew capsule at 4:33 p.m.

26.05.2020 - 01:23 [ ABC ]

NASA astronauts go back to the future with capsule launch

This fresh take on a vintage look will be on full display Wednesday when SpaceX plans to launch NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station — a first for a private company.