TOKYO — After one other yr of U.S. aeronautics firm SpaceX dominating headlines concerning the trade, 2024 guarantees to carry an uptick in private and non-private area exercise from nations resembling China, India and Japan.

Chinese launch startup LandSpace Technology plans to launch reusable rockets in 2025 in an method that intently mirrors SpaceX, whereas India goals to start a sequence of flight checks for an eventual crewed spaceflight in 2025. On Dec. 4, India laid out a imaginative and prescient of constructing an area station by 2035 and sending the primary Indian to the moon by 2040.