China confirmed this week that a Long March rocket broke up on Saturday and left debris in an orbit close to SpaceX satellites used by Elon Musk's Starlink internet company

China’s space agency said most of the remnants of the spacecraft fell into the Pacific Ocean, 1,000km southwest of Acapulco in Mexico

China's Long March 5B rocket is not equipped with reignited engines, meaning it cannot be steered away from populated areas, report says

The final 23 metric tonne module is expected to dock with the station within hours, completing China's new space outpost and orbiting-research facility

Tiangong will be the world's second laboratory in orbit, and is set to host more than 1,000 scientific experiments over the next ten years, Nature said

Data Lake, a Manila-based firm part owned by Henry Sy Jr, said it signed a deal to be first SE Asian partner of SpaceX's Starlink. Currently few Filipinos have broadband internet service

All six members of the party's new executive committee boast scientific expertise, from nuclear power to rocket science, reported the SCMP

Chinese President stressed innovation and hailed progress in the areas of space flight and exploration, quantum information and supercomputers.

Chinese officials clearly disapproved of Starlink's rollout in Ukraine and 'sought assurances' that Musk would not sell access to the internet service in China, report said

Chinese researchers say planes on PLA aircraft carriers will be able to launch hypersonic missiles due to new "logistics technology that simplifies and speeds up repair" of missiles

Tickets will likely cost between $286,400 and $429,000, allowing customers to take in views from around the edge of the earth's atmosphere, Global Times said.

Changesite-(Y) is the sixth mineral identified on the Moon, following discoveries by the US and the former Soviet Union, reported the Global Times