D5.0m stainless steel propellant tank manufactured by LIGHT-YEAR-EXPLORER.

The China Space Station got an oven, brought up by Shenzhou-21

🔥 GALACTIC-ENERGY has just completed a static fire of Pallas-1's 1st stage hours ago, on the same platform that supported Tianlong-3's test in September.

Shenzhou-20 handed over the symbolic key of the China Space Station to Shenzhou-21, one day before their scheduled return.

A research team at CAS, led by the Institute of Mechanics, recently completed ground tests of an inflatable module for in-space manufacturing. imech.ac.cn/research/kyjz/…

🚨 CMSA announced the return of Shenzhou-20 postponed due to a suspected impact on the spacecraft by space debris.

i-Space broke ground a ¥3.3 billion rocket manufacturing facility in Chengdu

📸 3I/ATLAS captured by Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter

No new updates from CMSA on the Shenzhou-20 impact assessment yet. In the meantime, these mice are getting some unexpected bonus days in space!

🚀 Liftoff at 21:01UTC November 08, Long March 11 launched Shiyan-32-01/02/03 from the sea near Haiyang, Shandong

🚀 Liftoff at 03:32UTC November 09, CAS-SPACE's Kinetica-1 Y9 launched ChuTian-2-01/02 from Jiuquan

🚀 Liftoff at 02:41UTC November 10, Long March 12 Y3 launched SatNet LEO Group 13 from Hainan.

🚀 Long March 12 Y3

🚀 GALACTIC-ENERGY launched CERES-1 Y19 from Jiuquan at 04:02UTC November 10, with 1-3 stages performing flawlessly. But the fourth stage shut down prematurely at 510s after ignition. Exact cause of failure TBD.

Nearly a week after the initial announcement, CMSA updated today that the risk assessment of Shenzhou-20 return "still ongoing" and that everything is "proceeding accordingly." Conspicuously absent from this update was any technical info regarding the vehicle's integrity, leaving

So, when CCTV broadcasts this announcement with clips of Long March 2F launch facility, I tend to believe that Long March 2F Y22 and Shenzhou-22 will very likely be activated.

A Long March 8A is on the launch pad.

ISRO completed a test of Gaganyaan main parachute on November 03, dropped from altitude of 2.5km by an IL-76