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China to improve space infrastructure with new satellites, technologies: white paper
Jan 28, 2022 (XNA)
The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective", was issued by the State Council Information Office of China. According to the paper, China ...
China to explore more in space science next five years: White paper
Jan 28, 2022 (XNA)
The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," was released by the State Council Information Office. It says that China will continue with...
China to improve space debris monitoring: white paper
Jan 28, 2022 (XNA)
The white paper titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective" was released by the State Council Information Office. According to the white paper, China wil...
China's rocket technology hits the ski slopes
Jan 20, 2022 (XNA)
Chinese scientists have developed a strong ski helmet with space technology originally used on the Long March-5 rocket, the country's heaviest launch vehicle an...
China conducts its first rocket launch of 2022
Jan 18, 2022 (XNA)
The rocket blasted off at 10:35 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi province and soon placed the Shiyan 13 experimental satelli...
Shouzhou XIII crew finishes cargo spacecraft, space station docking test
Jan 10, 2022 (XNA)
At the beginning of the experiment, the astronauts in the core module teleoperated the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft to leave the front docking port of the core module...
China to complete building of space station in 2022
Jan 06, 2022 (XNA)
The country will see 40-plus space launches in 2022, including multiple manned space flights, the company said at a recent conference on its plan for the new ye...
CASC plans more than 40 space launches for China in 2022
Jan 06, 2022 (XNA)
Among the scheduled launches, the most important ones will be the six related to the Tiangong space station program, according to the report delivered by Xu Qia...
China's astronauts mark New Year with livestream from space
Jan 03, 2022 (XNA)
On Saturday afternoon, astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu hosted a live video call and interacted with college students at venues in Beijing an...
China heads launch list of space rockets
Jan 01, 2022 (XNA)
The rocket blasted off at 0:43 am and transported the Communication Technology Demonstrator 9 experimental satellite into a geosynchronous orbit, China Aerospac...
Shenzhou XIII taikonauts complete second extravehicular mission
Dec 27, 2021 (XNA)
This was the fourth time that the taikonauts conducted EVAs during the construction of the country's space station and the second by the Shenzhou XIII crew. The...
New technologies make Chinese astronauts' in-orbit lives easier
Dec 20, 2021 (XNA)
There are smart home systems in China's space station core module Tianhe, Bai Linhou, deputy chief designer of the space station at the China Academy of Space T...
On they march as China records 401st flight of Long March rocket family
Dec 15, 2021 (XNA)
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 0:09 am and then deployed the Tianlian II-02 satellite into orbit, the State-owned company said in a statement. Th...
China's Long March carrier rocket embarks on 400th mission
Dec 10, 2021 (XNA)
Since the first launch in 1970, the Long March carrier rocket series has carried out 92.1 percent of China's space launch mission, according to the China Aerosp...
Chinese astronauts to give space lecture on Dec. 9
Dec 08, 2021 (XNA)
The three astronauts, namely Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, will interact with students on Earth. The primary ground classroom will be at the China S...
Milestone mission for China's first commercial rocket company
Dec 08, 2021 (XNA)
The company's CERES 1 Y2 rocket, the second of its kind, blasted off at 12:12 pm Tuesday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gobi Desert...
First crew of space station provide a full update on China's progress
Dec 08, 2021 (XNA)
Major General Jing Haipeng, another astronaut, said on Tuesday the post-spaceflight recovery period has three phases: isolation, convalescence and observation. ...
China to livestream first space class from Tiangong space station
Dec 03, 2021 (XNA)
China will launch a space science education brand "Tiangong Class" - the first of its kind - to give full play to the Chinese space station, according to the CM...
Tianzhou cargo craft to help advance science
Nov 29, 2021 (XNA)
The agency said in a statement on Thursday that scientific experiments, technological tests and other applications in frontier or strategically important fields...
China launches 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station
Nov 29, 2021 (UPI)
The Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 10:08 a.m. Crew members Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang ...
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