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China prepares to launch Long March-8 Y1 rocket
Dec 17, 2020 (XNA)
Next, the rocket will be filled with propellant and readied for launch in late December, according to the administration. China's newest carrier rocket-the Long...
China plans to launch new space science satellites
Nov 30, 2020 (XNA)
The telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in ...
How it took decades for space program to take off
Nov 26, 2020 (XNA)
However, their suggestion was turned down by then Premier Zhou Enlai due to technological and financial difficulties. In 1997, several top Chinese scientists la...
Moon mission tasked with number of firsts for China
Nov 25, 2020 (XNA)
Mission spokesman Pei Zhaoyu said Chang'e 5 will be the first Chinese spacecraft to carry out sample collection and launch operations on an extraterrestrial bod...
China to Begin Construction of Its Space Station Next Year
Nov 25, 2020 (Sputnik)
"Since the appearance of the Chang Zheng 5 launch vehicle, it has been determined that it will carry out the mission of launching China's largest spacecraft," Q...
China's space tracking ship sails for Chang'e 5 mission
Nov 20, 2020 (XNA)
China's Chang'e 5 mission, which is scheduled to be launched late this month, will bring moon samples back to Earth, making it one of the country's most complic...
China Focus: 18 reserve astronauts selected for China's manned space program
Oct 23, 2020 (XNA)
Flight engineers and payload experts have been selected for the first time as reserve astronauts to meet China's space station construction needs. The mission p...
State-owned space giant prepares for giant step in space
Oct 20, 2020 (XNA)
Fu Zhimin, chief technical officer at CASIC, said at the opening ceremony of the sixth China International Commercial Aerospace Forum, which opened in Hubei's p...
China's Xichang launch center to carry out 10 missions by end of March
Oct 13, 2020 (XNA)
The center will carry out launch missions twice a month on average, with a minimum interval of five days, said Zhang Xueyu, director of the launch center. The c...
Eighteen new astronauts chosen for China's space station mission
Oct 01, 2020 (XNA)
The 18 new astronauts - 17 men and one woman - are in three groups: seven will become spacecraft pilots, another seven will turn into spaceflight engineers, and...
NASA chief warns Congress about Chinese space station
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
The first parts of the ISS were launched in 1998 and it has been continuously lived in since 2000. The station, which serves as a space science lab and is a par...
China's new carrier rocket available for public view
Sep 18, 2020 (XNA)
The medium-sized carrier rocket was developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology affiliated to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corpora...
China sends nine satellites into orbit by sea launch
Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)
The nine satellites, belonging to the Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 group, blasted off atop a Long March-11 carrier rocket, China's first sea-launched rocket, at 9:23 a.m...
Chinese spacecraft launched mystery object into space before returning to Earth
Sep 11, 2020 (Sputnik)
The mysterious Chinese reusable spacecraft which made a trip into space last week launched an unknown object into orbit before returning to Earth, SpaceNews.com...
China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth after 2 days
Sep 07, 2020 (Sputnik)
The reusable spaceship was launched this past Friday on a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert. While little...
Mars-bound Tianwen 1 hits milestone
Aug 31, 2020 (XNA)
The administration said in a statement that the spacecraft was in good condition and several of its mission payloads had completed self-examination and sent sci...
China's Mars probe over 8m km away from Earth
Aug 24, 2020 (XNA)
As of 11:20 pm Wednesday, the Mars probe has traveled 8.23 million km away from Earth. Starting from 10:20 pm Wednesday, multiple payloads on the Mars probe, in...
China seeks payload ideas for mission to moon, asteroid
Aug 07, 2020 (XNA)
It is asking for primary, middle school and university students across the country to provide ideas for payloads that would fly aboard the Chang'e 7 probe to th...
China marching to Mars for humanity's better shared future
Jul 24, 2020 (XNA)
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questions or Questions to Heaven, written by on...
From the Moon to Mars: China's long march in space
Jul 23, 2020 (AFP)
It is among a trio of nations, along with the United Arab Emirates and the United States, launching missions to the Red Planet this month, taking advantage of a...
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