US commander General Chance Saltzman said a direct line of communication between the Space Force and China could de-escalate tensions

The Indian Space Research Organisation said the craft had completed its mission and had now been put to ‘sleep'

The Indian mission was accomplished with a budget of about 6.15 billion rupees ($75 million), less than the cost to produce the 2013 Hollywood space thriller "Gravity”

The country's lunar spacecraft made a soft landing on the far side of the moon, days after a similar Russian lander, Luna-25, crashed

China will also launch three astronauts to its now fully operational space station on Tuesday, one of whom will be its first ever civilian to go to space

Computer glitches were blamed for postponement of the third test of Seoul’s homegrown Nuri rocket

The fully robotic rover has been in longer-than-expected hibernation since May 2022, when it entered a planned sleep mode

A robot tasked with making "lunar soil bricks" will also be launched during China's Chang'e 8 mission around 2028

The rocket’s failure dealt a blow to Japan’s efforts to cut the cost of accessing space and compete against Elon Musk's SpaceX

Beijing's significant advances in space in recent years have alarmed Washington and other Western nations

CASC lauded the “complete success” of the mission boosting China’s “space transportation technology from one-time use to repeated use”

The rocket's entire main-core stage has reached low orbit and is expected to tumble back toward Earth once atmospheric friction drags it downward, possibly on Sunday