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Tianwen 1 probe to soon blast off for Mars
Jul 16, 2020 (XNA)
The academy said in a statement on Tuesday that the spacecraft is now undergoing prelaunch preparations at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang before s...
China's newest carrier rocket fails in debut mission
Jul 13, 2020 (XNA)
The rocket blasted off at 12:17 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert to send two small satellites to two different orbi...
China's tracking ship wraps up satellite launch monitoring
Jun 25, 2020 (XNA)
The satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family, was launched at 9:43 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. It was sent into the preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier ro...
Final Beidou launch marks major milestone in China's space effort
Jun 24, 2020 (XNA)
As the countdown ticked down to zero at 9:43 am at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, eight engines on the first stage and four boosters o...
Private investment fuels China commercial space sector growth
Jun 05, 2020 (SPX)
China Satcom is now the world's highest valued pure satellite operator with a market cap of US$11 billion as of May 2020, while China Satcom parent company Chin...
More details of China's space station unveiled
Jun 03, 2020 (XNA)
The space station, expected to be completed around 2022, will operate in the low-Earth orbit at an altitude from 340 km to 450 km for more than 10 years, suppor...
China space program targets July launch for Mars mission
May 25, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing has invested billions of dollars in its space programme in an effort to catch up with its rival the United States and affirm its status as a major world...
China's tracking ship Yuanwang-5 back from rocket monitoring mission
May 14, 2020 (XNA)
The ship has operated 81 days at sea, sailing over 20,000 nautical miles. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no port calls were made during the voyage, and more than...
China's Kuaizhou rocket industrial park partially operational
May 14, 2020 (XNA)
After it is fully operational, the park is expected to be capable of completing the assembly and testing for 20 solid-fuelled carrier rockets annually. With con...
China's new spacecraft returns to Earth: official
May 08, 2020 (AFP)
The spacecraft -- which was launched Tuesday -- arrived safely at a predetermined site, the China Manned Space Agency said, after a hitch in an earlier part of ...
China's experimental new-generation manned spaceship works normally in orbit
May 08, 2020 (XNA)
The experimental spaceship was launched without crew by China's new large carrier rocket Long March-5B from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of sou...
Long March-5B rocket enables China to construct space station
May 07, 2020 (XNA)
The Long March-5B was specially developed to launch the space station modules, said Wang Jue, chief director of the rocket development team at the China Academy...
China's space test hits snag with capsule 'anomaly'
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
The cargo capsule was launched Tuesday aboard a new type of carrier rocket along with a prototype spacecraft, and the latter is expected to return to Earth on F...
China says launch of key new space rocket 'successful'
May 05, 2020 (AFP)
The Long March 5B rocket took off from the Wenchang launch site in the southern island of Hainan and eight minutes later an unmanned prototype spaceship success...
China launches new rocket as it eyes moon trip
May 05, 2020 (AFP)
The Long March 5B rocket took off from the Wenchang launch site in the southern island of Hainan and eight minutes later an unmanned prototype spaceship success...
China recollects first satellite stories after entering space for 50 years
Apr 28, 2020 (XNA)
It listed China as the fifth country in the world to develop and launch a man-made satellite on its own, and recorded the country's first step in exploring the ...
China builds Asia's largest steerable radio telescope for Mars mission
Apr 28, 2020 (XNA)
China aims to complete orbiting, landing and roving on the red planet in one mission, which has been named Tianwen-1. The telescope, with an antenna the size of...
China's first Mars exploration mission named Tianwen-1
Apr 26, 2020 (XNA)
The name comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Questions to Heaven, written by Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC), one of the greatest poets of ancient China. In ...
Parachutes guide China's rocket debris safely to earth
Apr 07, 2020 (XNA)
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and c...
China to launch IoT communications satellites named after Wuhan
Apr 06, 2020 (XNA)
The rocket to send the satellites, Kuaizhou-1A, was developed by the Wuhan-based Sanjiang Group under the CASIC. Despite its proximity to the epicenter of the n...
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