The Path has taken witchers to many distant places — but this one is truly worthy of the Lady of Space and Time herself!

Thanks to @esa.int's kindness and the courage of Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, The Witcher medallions embarked on a voyage to the ISS, accompanying Sławosz on the Ignis mission.👨‍🚀🛰️

Development status of upcoming Chinese Launch Vehicles by the end of Q3 2025

The Trimester saw 5-6 static fires of new stages.
As it stands maybe 4 RLV and 1 ELV have a chance of launching in Q4 (2 of which will attempt a landing), with a few more possible in H1 2026.

Apparently, the Shenzhou-19 EVA 1 had a record total time under spacesuit internal power of 9h42min. China counts EVA like Russia: from hatch opening to closing, internal power time was used by NASA in 80s.
Footage of Kinetica-2 stages (+nosecone) under assembly.
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Overview of current progress of the upcoming chinese RLV.

This doesn't include some of the recent, lesser, aspiring LSP (Astronstone, Tianzhang Rockets...)
or former promising LSP that have fallen on hard time such as RocketPi or Linkspace, or future expendable launchers (Jielong-4/Ceres-2)

For Shuttle Sunday....
www.ebay.com/str/ifitsout...

just check what this seller has
"These recent find is from the estate of a Retired Military Officer/Vietnam Veteran and later a NASA/MSFC Aerospace Engineer"
"
If I had a spare $10k...

10 years ago.
The end of 30 years of attempts at an independent european LEO crewed program.
10 years later, and still no equal capability, in Europe or anywhere else.

We’ll probably learn about the Chinese space sector launch targets for 2025 (2024: 70 CASC 30 Others) after the Chinese New Year, but based on recent declarations I expect it to be above 100, maybe even as high as 120, with >40 for the "private LSP"

Back when I first posted there, I would have never thought that my ownership of spacexmasterrace would become so topical lol.