On June 11, 2021 at 03:03 UTC the “Long March – 2B” (“Changzheng-2B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the Earth observation, asteroid monitoring, and technology demonstration missions.

On June 6, 2021 at 04:26 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited SXM-8 telecommunications satellite.

On June 5, 2021 at 09:09 UTC, the private U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft, the "Dragon” SpX-22 (CRS-22 flight), was successfully docked to the International Space Station. It was the new generation of Dragon cargo spacecraft also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the second SpaceX cargo vehicle that automatically docked to the space station without being captured by the Canadarm. This docking marked the 22^nd time a Dragon cargo spaceship has reached the space station, counting a demonstration flight in 2012 as well as the 2^nd time for the cargo version of the SpaceX Dragon-2 (Cargo Dragon-2).

On June 3, 2021 at 17:29 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. US private company SpaceX launched its "Dragon” (CRS-22 flight also known as SpX-22) unmanned spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It is the 23^rd successful flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 22^nd successful flight of a “Dragon” cargo spacecraft to the ISS. It was the 2^nd flight for SpaceX under NASA's CRS Phase 2 contract awarded in January 2016. It was the 2^nd launch of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Ca ... Read more »

On June 2, 2021, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov performed the extra vehicle activities (EVA – spacewalk) to wrap up preparations for detaching the two-decades-old Pirs airlock and docking compartment next month, clearing the way for the long-planned arrival of a new laboratory module. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 19 minutes (from 05:53 till 13:12 UTC). It was the first EVA for both cosmonauts.

On June 2, 2021 at 16:17 UTC the "Chang Zheng-3B/G3” (Long March-3B/G3) rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The rocket orbited the Fengyun-4B meteorological satellite.

On May 29, 2021 at 21:01 UTC (on May 30 by Beijing time) the Chinese “Tianzhou-2” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the Chinese “Tianhe” space station core module. Tianzhou means “heavenly vessel” in Chinese. The “Tianzhou-2” delivered 6,640 kilograms of propellant and dry goods to the “Tianhe” core module. The “Tianzhou” spacecraft is similar in purpose to cargo freighters that fly to the International Space Station, such as the Russian Progress supply ship and the commercial Cygnus and Dragon carriers built by Northrop Grumman and SpaceX. In design and capability, the Tianzhou is most like Russian Progress and Europe’s now-retired Automated Transfer Vehicle, which carried dry goods, water and propellant to the orbiting outpost. The U.S. commercial supply ships and Japan’s H ... Read more »

On May 29, 2021 at 12:55 UTC, the Chang Zheng-7 (Long March-7) rocket-carrier was launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC), located in Wenchang on Hainan Island off China’s southern coastline. The rocket orbited the “Tianzhou-2” unmanned supply spacecraft.

On May 28, 2021 at 17:38 UTC the "Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Russian Vostochny Cosmodrome, in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. The rocket equipped with the “Fregat-M” upper stage orbited 36 satellites for OneWeb’s broadband internet network. London-based OneWeb’s broadband relay network is designed to beam high-speed internet signals around the world.

On May 26, 2021 at 18:59 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited sixty satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.

On May 19, 2021, at 04:03 the “Long March –4B” (“Changzheng-4B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited the Haiyang-2D oceanography satellite.

On May 18, 2021 at 17:37 UTC the "Atlas 5” rocket-carrier was launched from Complex 41 of Cape Canaveral launch site of US Air Force. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the U.S. military’s SBIRS GEO 5 satellite. The upgraded, cyber-hardened satellite will support the U.S. military’s missile defense systems.

On May 15, 2021 at 22:56 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited 52 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network and Tyvak-0130 and Capella-6 satellites.

On May 15, 2021 at 11:1 UTC, the “Electron” rocket-carrier was launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, the commercial spaceport located on the Mahia Peninsula on the eastern coast of New Zealand's North Island. The launch was unsuccessful.  The Electron launcher malfunctioned about two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff destroying two BlackSky Earth-imaging satellites.

On May 14, 2021, at 23:18 UTC, the Chinese “Zhurong” rover successfully landed on the Martian surface aboard a landing platform. The touchdown occurred on an expansive flat plain named Utopia Planitia in the northern hemisphere.

On May 9, 2021 at 06:42 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited sixty satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.

On May 6, 2021 at 18:11 UTC the "Chang Zheng-2C” (Long March-2C) rocket-carrier was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The rocket orbited 3 “Yaogan-30” military satellites and the “Tianqi-12” civilian data relay satellite.

On May 4, 2021 at 19:01 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited sixty satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.

On May 2, 2021 at 06:57 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Crew-1 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico south of Panama City, Florida, USA. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth 4 members of Expedition 65: American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They spent in space 167 days, 6 hours and 29 minutes.

Seven other ISS crew members - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov; American astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur; Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in orbit aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 65 crew members ... Read more »

On May 2, 2021 at 00:35 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Crew-1 mission) spacecraft undocked from zenith docking port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth 4 members of Expedition 65: American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

On April 30, 2021, at 07:27 the “Long March –4C” (“Changzheng-4C”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited the Yaogan-34 military observation satellite. China’s Xinhua news agency said that the Yaogan-34 was an optical remote sensing satellite that “will be used for the survey of land resources, urban planning, the confirmation of land rights, road network design, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and reduction.” The Earth observation satellite also has a military purpose. China uses the Yaogan name as a cover for military spy satellites.

On April 29, 2021 at 01:50 UTC, the “Vega” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited six commercial satellites.

On April 29, 2021 at 03:44 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited sixty satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.

On Aril 29, 2021 at 03:23 UTC the Chang Zheng-5B (Long March-5B) rocket-carrier was launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC), located in Wenchang on Hainan Island off China’s southern coastline. The rocket orbited the “Tianhe” space station core module. It is the first element of the Chinese space station laying the keystone to a permanently-inhabited orbiting habitat that could welcome its first astronauts this summer. The liftoff of the Tianhe core module begins the most ambitious project in the history of China’s nearly 30-year human spaceflight program, which s ... Read more »

On April 29, 2021 the “Progress MS-14” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific at 00:42 UTC.

American astronaut Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, has passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 90.

On April 28, 2021 at 02:11 Moscow time (on April 27 at 23:11 UTC) the Russian “Progress MS-14” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station.

On April 27, 2021 at 03:20 UTC the “Long March – 4” (“Changzheng-4”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited Earth-observing satellites.

On April 26, 2021 at 20:47 UTC the " Delta-4 Heavy” rocket-carrier was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 30th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the payload named as NROL-82 for the National Reconnaissance Office. The NROL (National Reconnaissance Office Launch) abbreviation is used to identify classified satellites operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office.