On July 19, 2019 at 13:06 UTC, the Chinese “Tiangong-2” space station re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean. Debris from the space station fell in a remote zone of the South Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile.

On July 13, 2019 at 12:30 UTC the Russian "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the "DM-03” booster orbited the “Spektr-RG” astronomical observatory with dual X-ray telescopes developed by Russian and German scientists. The new observatory will detect X-ray emissions from across the sky, including those from huge clusters of galaxies. By measuring the mass, luminosity and distance of distant galaxies, Spektr-RG could help astronomers better understand dark energy.