Beijing pools its state launch sales arms; Tiangong's year of near-misses; MMX flies Monday 19:41:03 UTC

Commercial Launch Vehicle Group — The state firm set up to sell Long March rides commercially took a 2.71 billion yuan capital injection around 8 October from three state investors, one of them China Rocket, the commercial arm of the rival Long March design academy. It signals who will be selling Chinese launches to satellite operators: the state sector looks to be pooling its sales arms rather than letting them compete. China Rocket now holds 23.9575%; the Shanghai Academy's bloc dropped to about 40%. China in Space

Tiangong — KeepTrack's October survey of the Chinese station: the cracked Shenzhou-20 window blamed on an untracked debris fragment, the eleven days the crew had no usable ride home, and plans to grow Tiangong from three modules to six, about 90 tonnes to 180. A compact refresher before Shenzhou-24, which reporting puts around November with a Pakistani payload specialist aboard — not confirmed by China's crewed spaceflight agency. The Shenzhou-21 crew landed on 29 May 2026 after 210 days, a Chinese record. KeepTrack

“We could also see that some of the cracks had penetrated through,”