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A Long March-3B Y110 rocket carrying Tianwen-2 probe takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, China May 29, 2025. Photo: China Daily via REUTERS
China

China successfully launches new satellite into space

The launch took place at 12:12 pm (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Second satellite to be launched in 2-3 years: Shahjahan Mahmood

Japan's Space One's small, solid-fueled Kairos rocket lifts off before it explodes, shortly after the launch at Space One's launching pad on the tip of Kii peninsula in Kushimoto town, Wakayama prefecture, Japan 13 March 2024. Photo: Kyodo via REUTERS
World+Biz

Japan's Space One Kairos rocket explodes on inaugural flight

A Long March-2C carrier rocket carrying a satellite called Einstein Probe takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, China 9 January, 2024. Photo: cnsphoto via REUTERS
World+Biz

China satellite launch causes pre-election political storm in Taiwan

India launches satellite to study black holes
Science

India launches satellite to study black holes

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off carrying Amazon's two prototype relay stations for a space-based internet service it calls Project Kuiper, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., October 6, 2023. The launch is the first to test Amazon's internet satellites in space before deploying some 3,200 more. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
Global Economy

Amazon launches first test satellites for Kuiper internet network

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 8th enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 19, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS
World+Biz

North Korea says botched satellite launch was 'gravest failure'

General view during the test firing of what state media report is a North Korean "new type" of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in this undated photo released on 24 March, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

North Korea's space launch programme and long-range missile projects

People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing what it called a space satellite toward the south, in Seoul, South Korea, 31 May, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
World+Biz

North Korean satellite plunges into sea after rocket failure

The plane takes off ahead of Britain's first satellite launch, at Cornwall Airport Newquay, in Cornwall, Britain January 9, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Tech

Britain's groundbreaking satellite launch ends in failure

Representative Image. File Photo
Bangladesh

Bangladesh and India sign MoU on joint student satellite

The Long March 5B carrier rocket takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan Province, China May 5, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.
Global Economy

Will small rockets finally lift off?

A North Korean flag flutters on top of the 160-metre tall tower at North Korea's propaganda village of Gijungdong, in this picture taken from Tae Sung freedom village near the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), inside the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, September 30, 2019. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji
World+Biz

North Korea carries out 'very important' test at satellite launch site