The Long March 5 will send the Chang’e 7 robotic Moon mission toward a polar lunar orbit and keep it there for about ninety days before landing near Shackleton crater at the Moon’s south pole.

The Chang’e 7 spacecraft arrived at the launch site several months before the Long March 5.

The Long March 5 last flew in June with a geostationary satellite.

The Chang’e 7 mission includes an orbiter, a lander, a rover, and a hopper.

The Long March 5’s first stage, second stage, and four boosters will be individually inspected and tested before assembly.

Domestic Chinese brands reached nearly 40% of China’s commercial SSD channel in the first quarter of 2026.

Dapustor Microelectronics ranked fourth in the Chinese domestic enterprise SSD market and held an estimated 6.4% market share in the first quarter of 2026.

Zhitai is backed by upstream manufacturing support from Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. (YMTC).

Kingston, SanDisk, and Samsung held more than 40% of the commercial SSD market in China during the first quarter of 2026.

Venus Aerospace says its RDRE uses a continuous supersonic detonation wave that rotates around the combustion chamber.

Lockheed Martin Ventures, MESH, PEAK6, Draper Associates, Starboard Star Venture Capital, Green Sands Equity, Seraph Group, and Trousdale Ventures participated in Venus Aerospace’s Series B round.

Venus Aerospace says its RDRE has potential roles in munitions, space launch, orbital transfer, and lander missions.

Venus Aerospace completed its first successful flight test of a high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine in May 2025.

Venus Aerospace says its RDRE is reusable and throttleable.

Venus Aerospace says its RDRE has an efficiency gain of about 15 percent over traditional rocket engine designs.

Venus Aerospace appointed former NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy to its board of directors.

Venus Aerospace is building its engines in Texas with U.S. engineering talent for customers seeking sovereign propulsion capability.

Houston-based Mercury Fund led Venus Aerospace’s Series B round.

Venus Aerospace closed a $91 million Series B funding round.

Venus Aerospace’s RDRE is built from 3D-printed components and standard materials.

Venus Aerospace completed the world’s first flight test of a high-thrust rotating detonation engine in May 2025 using 80 million dollars in capital.

Venus Aerospace is developing its high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine into full propulsion systems for defense and space customers.

Bradford Space’s Swedish subsidiary ECAPS developed the ADN-based monopropellant LMP-103S and its High Performance Green Propulsion thruster line.

Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and OHB SE are among the European primes most exposed to hydrazine use in satellite integration.

Olin Corporation is a dominant U.S. producer of propellant-grade hydrazine and hydrazine derivatives for defense and space applications.

Hydrazine cannot be placed on the EU market or used within the EU without explicit, time-limited authorization from the European Commission based on ECHA committee opinions.

ADN and HAN monopropellants have flown on a handful of missions but have not been qualified across the thruster classes most European primes still fly.

ECAPS’ LMP-103S has flown on Sweden’s Prisma technology demonstration mission.

The European Chemicals Agency sets recurring renewal cycles for hydrazine authorizations in Europe.

NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission flew AF-M315E on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch in June 2019 on the Space Test Program-2 mission.

Aerojet Rocketdyne became part of L3Harris Technologies in the 2023 acquisition.

Hydrazine is on the European Union REACH Authorisation List as a Substance of Very High Concern.

Companies using hydrazine in Europe operate under time-limited authorizations rather than permanent rights.

The European Union classified hydrazine as carcinogenic in 2011 and added it to the REACH Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern.

Aerojet Rocketdyne developed the HAN-based AF-M315E propellant, marketed as ASCENT.

ArianeGroup supplies apogee and station-keeping thruster hardware and manages propellant loading services for Ariane-launched payloads.

ECAPS’ LMP-103S has flown on Planet Labs’ SkySat Earth-imaging constellation.

Elsa Henchiri is a former Transport Canada director and a 25-year federal veteran.

NordSpace has opened a new Ottawa office focused on policy, regulatory compliance, and government relations.

Pulse Space won a $40 million contract from the U.S. Space Force.

The Canada Rocket Company has secured $22.5 million in early funding.

The National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program now has seven qualified providers for small and medium-lift military missions.

MDA Space’s replenishment satellite will be based on the fourth-generation CHORUS bus.

The Spaceport Nova Scotia launch complex is intended to support Canada’s commitments under NATO’s STARLIFT responsive launch framework.

The HALO project is a NATO initiative involving eight allied nations.

Georgian led Dominion Dynamics’ $139 million CAD Series A round.

The new MDA Space satellite will be assembled in Montreal.

The Canadian Patrol Submarine Project includes negotiations for up to 12 conventional submarines.

MDA Space and Telesat said their South Korean partnerships for the K-LEO sovereign defence constellation are advancing independently of the submarine procurement.

Dominion Dynamics is scaling manufacturing in Kanata, Ontario for Scout.