N95NA, or NASA5, touched down in Brisbane on Monday before flying out to Perth on Tuesday ahead of the launch on 11 January. The aircraft will watch the re-entry of the SpaceX Starship, which is expected to splash down off the coast of WA.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will now not come home until “no earlier than late March 2025”, back from February, to allow for more “complete processing” for a new SpaceX Dragon capsule.
A batch of GuoWang satellites launched aboard a Long March-5B rocket from the Wenchang spaceport in southern China. Once in space, the satellites were successfully manoeuvred into their planned low-Earth orbit. Chinese state agency Xinhua declared the …