China successfully launched the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft on Monday to deliver supplies to the Tiangong space station.
China launched the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan province on Monday morning.
The craft lifted off atop a Long March-7 Y11 rocket, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The mission aims to deliver supplies to the orbiting Tiangong space station.
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South Korea's Compact Advanced Satellite (CAS) 500-2 successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite entered low-Earth orbit and made first contact with a ground station in Norway. The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) confirmed it is operating normally.
China's commercial space company CAS Space successfully debuted its Kinetica 2 carrier rocket on Monday, launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and placing the New March 02 experimental cargo spaceship and two satellites into preset orbits. The mission marks the first use of a commercial rocket in China's manned space program.
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