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Space missions bring Down-to-Earth benefits
Sep 22, 2022 (XNA)
Editor's note: In this series, China Daily looks at some of the areas in which major progress has been made in the 10 years since the 18th National Congress of ...
Shenzhou astronauts carry out second spacewalk
Sep 18, 2022 (XNA)
The agency said in a brief news release that Senior Colonel Cai Xuzhe opened an extravehicular activity hatch on the Tiangong space station at 1:35 pm and then ...
Taikonauts enjoy 'home-grown' meal during Mid-Autumn Festival
Sep 15, 2022 (XNA)
The three astronauts entered the Tiangong space station in June. They brought seeds, including those of lettuce, and cultivated them in the space station. After...
Rocket to carry Mengtian space lab module arrives at launch site
Sep 05, 2022 (XNA)
The rocket will undergo final assembly and testing together with the Mengtian lab module, which arrived earlier. Preparations for the launch mission scheduled f...
Duo undertake 7-hour spacewalk
Sep 05, 2022 (XNA)
Mission commander Senior Colonel Chen Dong opened an extravehicular activity hatch on the Tiangong space station at 6:26 pm on Thursday Beijing time and then fl...
Chinese scientist advocates int'l cooperation in space science
Sep 02, 2022 (XNA)
"When one enters space, one will realize that human beings are an indivisible whole. Regardless of skin color, they have far more in common than they have diffe...
China's Shenzhou-14 astronauts carry out spacewalk
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
Astronauts Chen Dong and Liu Yang returned to their cabin module in the early hours of Friday, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said, declaring the first sp...
Plant growth in China's space lab in good condition
Aug 31, 2022 (XNA)
Seed samples of the two plants, Arabidopsis and rice, were installed in the life ecology experiment cabinet of the lab module, which went into space in July. Th...
Energy particle detector helps Shenzhou-14 crew conduct EVAs
Aug 28, 2022 (XNA)
The Wentian module has been operating stably in orbit for nearly a month, and the Shenzhou-14 crew have been training and preparing for their first EVAs during ...
China conducts spaceplane flight test
Aug 26, 2022 (XNA)
The State-owned company said in a news release that the spaceplane started its own propulsion system and then conducted a vertical liftoff from the Jiuquan Sate...
103rd successful rocket launch breaks record
Aug 23, 2022 (SPX)
The rocket blasted off at 1:37 am Saturday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and later placed a series of Yaogan 35-04 satellites, th...
Chinese space-tracking ship docks at Sri Lanka's Hambantota port
Aug 18, 2022 (XNA)
Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong, Sri Lankan government officials and representatives of Chinese enterprises greeted the ship at the pier on Tuesday....
Chinese commercial carrier rocket Smart Dragon-3 completes ground tests
Aug 15, 2022 (XNA)
The rocket was developed by the China Rocket Co. Ltd., which is affiliated with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALVT). It is a four-stage solid...
Harvest from heavenly breeding
Aug 15, 2022 (XNA)
It will be part of the harvest of a 6-month-long breeding experiment aboard the Tiangong space station, which is under construction. Scientists say that the mic...
Shenzhou XIV astronauts to conduct their first spacewalk in coming days
Aug 15, 2022 (XNA)
The three-member crew has been working and living in orbit for 70 days since they were sent into space onboard the Shenzhou XIV spaceship and entered China's sp...
Reusable experimental spacecraft put into orbit
Aug 08, 2022 (XNA)
The leading State-owned space conglomerate said in a news release that the test vehicle is scheduled to stay in orbit for a certain period of time and will then...
Wentian's small mechanical arm completes in-orbit tests
Aug 08, 2022 (XNA)
With the support of the ground team, the small mechanical arm has completed a series of in-orbit function and performance tests. All indexes performed well, ach...
China's Tianzhou-3 cargo craft re-enters atmosphere under control
Jul 28, 2022 (XNA)
Most of the spacecraft's components burned up during the re-entry, and a small amount of its debris fell into the scheduled safe waters of the South Pacific, th...
China launches six new satellites
Jul 28, 2022 (XNA)
The satellites, including a new space technology test satellite and a test satellite for probing atmospheric density, were launched by a Lijian-1 carrier rocket...
China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 back from missions
Jul 27, 2022 (XNA)
During the 60-day voyage, the vessel has sailed more than 16,000 nautical miles, completing missions including tracking and monitoring the launch of the Shenzho...
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