China hit a major milestone in 2025 with the country's first launch and landing attempt of a reusable orbital rocket. Commercial company Landspace successfully sent its first Zhuq

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as two rocket failures on December 22 shows,

South Korean launch startup Innospace said it will attempt a second launch of its small rocket in the first half of 2026 after its inaugural flight failed.

On Dec. 20, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen emerged from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building in their bright orange launch suits. The crew waved to media and NASA employees before boarding the Artemis II transport van.

STP-30 will operate the first-ever DiskSats, a new type of spacecraft developed by The Aerospace Corporation with funding help from NASA. At 40 inches wide by just 1 inch thick (102 by 2.5 centimeters), each DiskSat has the approximate dimensions of a manhole cover.

The first-ever commercial rocket launched at Brazil's Alcantara Space Center crashed soon after liftoff late on Monday, dealing a blow to Brazilian aerospace ambitions and shares of South Korean satellite launch company Innospace .

THE country's space agency has launched its heaviest ever payload, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling the deployment "a significant stride" for the space sector.

By most measures, it’s been a sensational year for SpaceX. The American spaceflight company will finish 2025 having notched up a record-breaking 165 launches using its trusty Falcon 9 rocket, with the final lift-off of the year targeting Saturday,

The international space company Rocket Lab successfully launched its 21st Electron mission of the year Sunday, ending 2025 with a 100% success rate for its small-lift rocket program.

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