SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage strikes Moon near Einstein crater
A spent Falcon 9 upper stage from a 2025 lunar-lander mission crashed into the Moon on August 5.
news / incident
Yaogan-50 (02) satellite breaks up, sheds 43 tracked debris pieces
China's Yaogan-50 (02) satellite broke apart in a rare retrograde orbit; the US Space Force has cataloged 43 debris pieces.
Fire breaks out at Russia's Proton-PM rocket engine plant near Perm
A fire broke out in a workshop at Proton-PM, which builds RD-191 engines for Russia's Angara rockets; no injuries were reported.
CASC's Long March 6C upper stage breaks apart in orbit, scatters debris
A Long March 6C upper stage fragmented in orbit two days after launch, adding tens to hundreds of debris pieces to a low orbital shell.
Katalyst's Link mission fails to reboost NASA's Swift observatory
NASA and Katalyst called off Link's Swift reboost after attitude-control problems proved unrecoverable; Swift will reenter later in 2026.
Taiwan's first indigenous satellite launch vehicle self-destructs on debut test
NCSIST's first Taiwan-built satellite launch vehicle veered off course and was destroyed on its first test flight.
ISRO says LVM3-M5 upper stage's atmospheric reentry met debris rules
The C25 upper stage from ISRO's LVM3-M5 flight reentered over the Atlantic on July 30, within its planned short orbital lifetime.
CASC's Long March 7A rocket explodes after liftoff, destroys ChinaSat-4B
A Long March 7A carrying the ChinaSat-4B communications satellite exploded about 85 seconds into flight from Wenchang.
Fire breaks out at Roscosmos's TsNIIMash research center near Moscow
A fire in a TsNIIMash building basement, the facility that houses Russian ISS mission control, was extinguished with no injuries reported.
SpaceX Starlink satellite's reentry produces widely seen fireball over Netherlands
A defunct SpaceX Starlink satellite burned up over the Netherlands on July 24, producing a widely observed fireball, per Dutch outlets.
GalaxEye loses contact with Mission Drishti satellite
GalaxEye lost contact with Mission Drishti, billed as the world's first OptoSAR satellite, after a geomagnetic storm.
Australian Space Agency identifies Queensland beach spheres as rocket debris
The Australian Space Agency says metal spheres found on a Queensland beach are debris from a foreign rocket body.
Landspace Zhuque-2E upper stage breaks apart in orbit crossed by Starlink satellites
The US Space Force confirmed the breakup; a LeoLabs analyst estimates 100-150 debris pieces, per Ars Technica.
Object breaking apart over Saipan confirmed as reentering space debris, no operator named
CNMI emergency officials say Joint Task Force-Micronesia and the FAA confirmed the June 11 object was space debris, per RNZ.
Hisdesat loses SpainSat NG II secure comms satellite to debris strike
A space particle strike during orbit-raising destroyed Spain's new secure military comms satellite before it entered service.