April 2026

This Month's Articles

Date	Title
Apr 1	Artemis II Successfully Launches: First Crewed Lunar Mission in Over 50 Years
Apr 2	Artemis II Flight Day 2: Mission Team Approves Translunar Injection Burn
Apr 2	Artemis II Flight Day 2: TLI Burn Complete, Orion En Route to the Moon
Apr 3	Tianlong-3 Maiden Flight Fails: China's Falcon 9-Class Commercial Rocket Loses Control After Liftoff
Apr 3	Soyuz-5 (Irtysh) Medium-Launch Vehicle Flight Test from Baikonur
Apr 3	SpaceX Files Confidential IPO Registration with SEC, Targeting Record-Breaking Public Offering
Apr 4	Artemis II Flight Day 3: Trajectory Correction Cancelled, Spacecraft on Precise Path to the Moon
Apr 4	Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Resupply Mission Targeting April 8 Launch to ISS
Apr 4	Atlas V Launches 29 Amazon Leo Satellites on LA-05 Mission
Apr 4	China-ESA SMILE Satellite Completes Launch Preparations, Set for April 9 Vega-C Liftoff
Apr 5	Artemis II Flight Day 4: Deep-Space Flying, Lunar Flyby Prep as Glover Takes Manual Control
Apr 5	Chang'e-4 Data Reveals 'Cosmic Ray Cavity' in Cislunar Space
Apr 5	China Achieves First Precise Thermal Conductivity Measurement of Single Lunar Soil Particles
Apr 5	Saudi Arabia's 'Shams' Satellite Launches Aboard Artemis II on First National Space Weather Mission
Apr 5	SpaceX Starship V3 First Flight Delayed to May — Third Consecutive Postponement
Mar 24	NASA Suspends Lunar Gateway Space Station Plan, Shifts to Building Lunar Surface Base
Apr 5	LandSpace's Zhang Xiaodong: Zhuque-3 to Sprint for Reuse Testing in First Half of 2026
Apr 5	Artemis II Orion Spacecraft Toilet Malfunction: Frozen Waste Line and Burning Smell En Route to the Moon
Apr 5	Shenzhou-21 Crew Surpasses Five Months in Orbit, Space Station Experiments Progress
Apr 6	2026 China Space Conference (CSC2026) to be Held in Chengdu on April 23-26
Apr 4	Shenzhou-21 Crew Completes Second EVA, Approaching 150-Day On-Orbit Milestone

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