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China continued its stream of rocket launches on Friday (Nov. 26) by lofting a new communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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A Long March 4C rocket takes off Nov. 22 from the Jiuquan launch base with the Gaofen 3-02 remote sensing satellite Credit: CASC

China has launched four space missions from three different spaceports in the span of a week, hauling cargo into orbit for military communications, radar surveillance, and optical imaging.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, video producer Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin is scheduled to launch toward the ISS on Dec. 8.

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Proxima Centauri is the dimmest and smallest of the Alpha Centauri system, but it has the honor of being the nearest star.

A scheduled spacewalk by two NASA astronauts outside of the International Space Station has been postponed after a debris warning for the orbiting outpost caused NASA to act on the side of caution.

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The first meeting of the National Space Council under Vice President Kamala Harris will take place on Wednesday (Dec. 1). We'll presumably be able to watch it live.

Two NASA astronauts will step out into space on a mission to replace a faulty antenna system tomorrow (Nov. 30).

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It can be hard to appreciate that a human-made, football-pitch-sized spacecraft is orbiting 400 km above our heads, but there it is.