The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...

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The JWST has examined Chiron, a minor planet that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and found unexpectedly different ices ...

The Ceres 1's first sea-based launch took place ... to a 500-km sun synchronous orbit, or 350-kg payloads to a low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 200 km.

The Ceres 1's first sea-based launch took place in September 2023 off the coast of Shandong, placing four Tianqi satellites ...

A sea-launched version of Ceres I (Remote 4) solid propellent rocket blasted off in East China's Shandong Province at 6:18 pm on Tuesday, sending four satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO ...

Chinese launch startup Galactic Energy conducted its fourth sea launch early Thursday as China continued its recent high launch cadence. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at 5:18 a.m.

Six years after NASA’s Dawn mission concluded its remarkable exploration of the asteroid belt’s largest bodies, Ceres and Vesta, new findings continue to reshape our understanding of these celestial ...

Like the original NASA space shuttles built by Rockwell International and the Soviet Union’s Buran, the X-37B would need rocket boosters to enter orbit, dispense payloads via a payload bay, and then ...

A Japanese spacecraft has made a daring approach to a discarded rocket in Earth's orbit. The mission — undertaken by the satellite technology company Astroscale — intends to eventually remove ...