A sampling of items regarding rockets, spaceships, etc:<\/p>\n
**<\/strong> China’s Long March 5<\/a><\/strong>, the country’s largest heavy lift rocket, is set to launch again this year : China Plans Return-to-Flight of Long March-5 Booster – LeonardDavid.com<\/a><\/p>\n An essential launcher for China\u2019s future space station and Moon exploration plans is being readied for a July flight.<\/em><\/p>\n The third Long March-5 takeoff follows a mishap of this booster-class on July 2, 2017. An intensive investigation was carried out to identify why the rocket failed less than six minutes after liftoff.<\/em><\/p>\n China\u2019s Xinhua news agency reports that Yang Baohua, vice president of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), that the cause of the failure had been found.<\/em><\/p>\n 2019 will be another busy launch year for China: China will attempt 30-plus launches in 2019, including crucial Long March 5 missions – SpaceNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n And Chinese commercial launch companies are ramping up as well: Chinese companies OneSpace and iSpace are preparing for first orbital launches – SpaceNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n **<\/strong> The USAF’s X-37 reusable spaceplane<\/strong><\/a> is still in orbit after nearly a year and a half: U.S. Air Force Space Plane Wings Past 500 days of Earth Orbiting – LeonardDavid.com<\/a><\/p>\n The secretive mission of a U.S. Air Force X-37B mini-space plane has winged past 500 days of flight. This robotic drone is performing classified duties during the program\u2019s fifth flight.<\/em><\/p>\n This mission \u2013 tagged as Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) \u2014 was rocketed into Earth orbit on September 7, 2017 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n ** Feb 19: An Arianespace Soyuz rocket<\/a><\/strong> will launch the first ten satellites of the OneWeb<\/a> global broadband Internet constellation<\/a>, which will eventually total over 900 satellites.<\/p>\n ** Firefly Aerospace<\/a><\/strong> shows off an engine test:<\/p>\n Testing rocket engines never gets old. Ignition dramatically interrupts calm in different ways from day to day. This video shows LOx fog settling before ignition, then being rapidly carried away. #MakingSpaceForEveryone<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ZhVsgBSTaV<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) January 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n