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WATCH: Artemis makes lunar flyby as moon mission breaks record for human distance from earth

The Artemis II crew, flying in their Orion capsule since launching from Florida last week, awoke around 10:50 a.m. for their sixth flight day to a recorded message from late astronaut Jim Lovell.

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NASA ASTRONAUT and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon April 2, 2026.
SPACEX STARLINK 5 satellites are pictured in the sky seen from Svendborg on South Funen, Denmark April 21, 2020.

Starlink to reconfigure satellites into lower, safer orbit in 2026

This comes after Starlink said in December that one of its satellites experienced an anomaly in space, creating a "small" amount of debris and cutting off communications with the spacecraft.

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This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera, July 21, 2025.

NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS, rejects alien spacecraft 'rumors'

While the comet's precise point of origin remains unclear, the NASA scientists said they believe it hails from a solar system older than our own, which formed about 4.5 billion years ago.

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Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie attend a see-off ceremony for the Shenzhou-20 spaceflight mission at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China April 24, 2025.

Chinese astronauts' return delayed to Earth after debris hits spacecraft

China’s space agency said that the delay was to ensure the astronauts’ safety and health and has not yet announced alternative dates for Dong, Zhongrui, and Jie’s return.

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Chinese rocket in uncontrolled fall back to Earth

The first time the 30-meter long Long March 5B was launched, it nearly landed on US soil.

MAY 4, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the core module of China's space station Tianhe, takes off from Wenchang

Out of this world clean-up: First commercial sweeping satellite launched

As Earth's orbit gets dangerously polluted, one space start-up is looking to clean it up by launching the world's first commercial space-sweeping satellite.

MARCH 25, 2021ByMICHAEL STARR
A possible design for the new Amos-8 communications satellite

Russia has begun spaceplane project, says Soviet shuttle designer

"The goal has now been set and the development of a multi-use civilian complex with an orbital plane is in full swing," Olga Sokolova was quoted as saying in comments posted on Molniya's website.

MARCH 24, 2021ByREUTERS
View of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth in an image taken by NASA astronaut Christopher J. Cassidy August 19, 2020

NASA completes major test on rocket that could take humans back to moon

It was a much-sought-after victory for Boeing after multiple setbacks.

MARCH 22, 2021ByREUTERS
Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk (L) and Rick Gilbrech, director of NASA's Stennis Space Center react following a second hot fire test of the core stage of a Boeing-built rocket for Artemis missions

SpaceX Starship rocket prototype nails landing... then blows up

For Musk, the billionaire SpaceX founder who also heads the electric carmaker Tesla Inc, the outcome was mixed news.

MARCH 4, 2021ByREUTERS
SpaceX Starship SN10 explodes after liftoff at South Padre Island, Texas

As a child, she beat bone cancer. Now she's headed into space

Arceneaux relates how she spent a difficult yet meaningful year in hospital undergoing chemotherapy, and then surgery that replaced part of her femur with a prosthesis.

FEBRUARY 26, 2021ByREUTERS
Physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and pediatric bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux poses

Uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully enters Mars orbit

The robotic probe initiated and completed a 15-minute burn of its thrusters, the China National Space Administration said in a statement.

FEBRUARY 10, 2021ByREUTERS
Artist's rendition of NASA Mars rover Curiosity 370 (R)

Branson's Virgin Galactic cuts short key test flight

"Pilots and vehicles back safe and sound," the company said.

DECEMBER 12, 2020ByREUTERS
Virgin Galactic’s space tourism rocket plane SpaceShipTwo returns after a test flight from Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, U.S. December 13, 2018.

SpaceIL teases a possible second Moon landing attempt

A video was published on SpaceIL's Twitter with the text "Ready to get excited again?"

DECEMBER 7, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE ISRAELI spacecraft ‘Beresheet’ takes a selfie 37,600 km. from Earth.

China successfully lands spacecraft on moon to retrieve lunar rocks

If the mission is completed as planned, it would make China the third nation to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union.

DECEMBER 1, 2020ByREUTERS
The Long March-5 Y5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 lunar probe, is seen before taking off from Wenchang Space Launch Center, in Wenchang, Hainan province, China November 24, 2020.