A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The lander is set to land on the Moon on March 6.
The NASA science and technology demonstrations aboard the lander will, once on the Moon, gather data to support future human missions. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which launched as a rideshare with the IM-2 mission, also began its journey to lunar orbit, where it will map the distribution of the different forms of water on the Moon.
Source: NASA
TAIYUAN, April 19, China launched six satellites—Shiyan-27 01 to 06—aboard a Long March 6A rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. All satellites entered their planned orbits, marking the mission’s full success.
BEIJING, April 16, 2025 - China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation in distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the Moon, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
On April 15, 2025, Christopher Nixon Cox, the grandson of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, visited USPACE and its satellite manufacturing centre, TT&C centre, and data application center.