Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026
China has launched a Long March 2C rocket carrying a remote sensing satellite for Algeria, extending long running space cooperation between the two countries. The two stage launcher lifted off at 12:01 pm local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and placed the AlSat 3A spacecraft into its planned orbit. Project contractor China Great

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026
Modern physics faces a deep inconsistency between quantum theory, which explains nature using discrete particles and interactions, and general relativity, which describes gravity as a smooth curvature of space and time. For gravity to fit into a unified quantum framework, it must be mediated by particles called gravitons, but detecting even a single graviton was long considered fundamentally imp

Eutelsat has signed an agreement with French startup MaiaSpace to launch some of its OneWeb replenishment satellites.

NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft rolled to the launch pad for the Artemis 2 mission Jan.

The White House has resubmitted a nomination for NASA deputy administrator but is seeking a new nominee for the agency’s chief financial officer.

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China suffered a pair of launch failures Friday, seeing the loss of a classified Shijian satellite and the failed first launch of the Ceres-2 rocket