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China aiming for reusable manned spacecraft: chief engineer
Apr 26, 2016 (XNA)
China is studying how to retrieve and reuse manned spacecraft in its future missions, the chief engineer of the nation's manned space program said on Sunday. "I...
China's long march into space
Apr 26, 2016 (XNA)
On clear April nights, Zhu Jin, director of the Beijing Planetarium, retreats into the city's quiet, mountainous suburbs and aims a telescope at the sky. "Dongf...
China open to Sino-US space cooperation
Apr 26, 2016 (XNA)
China is open to space cooperation with all nations including the United States, the heavyweights of China's space program said on Sunday, the anniversary of Ch...
China to become aerospace power by 2030
Apr 25, 2016 (XNA)
China aims to become a global aerospace power by 2030, said Xu Dazhe, director of the China National Space Administration, on Friday. Xu said at a press confere...
150 Long March rocket launches scheduled 2016-2020
Apr 25, 2016 (XNA)
China will launch about 150 of its Long March carrier rockets over the next five years, one of its space chiefs said on Friday, days ahead of celebrations marki...
China testing own reusable rocket technologies
Apr 25, 2016 (XNA)
China is working on its own reusable rocket technologies, a source close to the research told Xinhua Thursday. Chinese experts have already built a prototype mo...
China aims for deeper space with new generation rockets
Apr 22, 2016 (XNA)
China will take its new generation heavy-lift rocket Long March-5 to the skies later this year, and is planning even bigger models. According to Wang Jue, head ...
China set to launch more livable space lab in Q3
Apr 22, 2016 (XNA)
China will put the country's second space lab Tiangong-2 into space in the third quarter of this year with more livable conditions for astronauts, a spokesman s...
China plans to launch core module of space station around 2018
Apr 22, 2016 (XNA)
China will launch a core module belonging to its first space station around 2018, according to a senior engineer with China Aerospace Science and Technology Cor...
China targets 2020 Mars mission launch: official
Apr 22, 2016 (AFP)
China plans to send a rover to Mars to explore the Red Planet, a top space official announced on Friday, in the latest step of its ambitious space programme. Au...
Chinese scientists develop mammal embryos in space for first time
Apr 20, 2016 (XNA)
Chinese scientists on Sunday said they have successfully developed early-stage mouse embryos in space for the first time on a retrievable microgravity satellite...
Re-entry capsule of SJ-10 lands in Northern China
Apr 19, 2016 (XNA)
The re-entry capsule of China's first retrievable microgravity satellite, SJ-10, returned safely to Earth on Monday, marking a solid step forward in space scien...
China begins testing Tiangong-2 space lab
Apr 15, 2016 (Sputnik)
China has completed the assembly and started testing its Tiangong-2 space laboratory, local media said on Tuesday. With assembly complete on Monday, experts beg...
Lessons learned from Tiangong 1
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
The recent telemetry failure from China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has lessons for the whole space community. This analyst has previously reported on the iss...
China launches SJ-10 retrievable space science probe
Apr 07, 2016 (XNA)
China put into space a retrievable scientific research satellite in the early hours of Wednesday in a fresh bid to aid scientists back on Earth in studying micr...
Has Tiangong 1 gone rogue
Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)
China's announcement in late March that telemetry to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory had ceased is disturbing. The language used in the original Xinhua story wa...
China's 1st space lab Tiangong-1 ends data service
Mar 23, 2016 (XNA)
After an operational orbit of 1,630 days, China's first space lab Tiangong-1 terminated its data service, the manned space engineering office said Monday. The f...
China's aim to explore Mars
Mar 22, 2016 (XNA)
China is preparing to launch a Mars probe in 2020, and it is expected to arrive on the red planet in 2021, aerospace expert Ye Peijian has said. "Although we ar...
China to establish first commercial rocket launch company
Mar 18, 2016 (XNA)
China will establish a commercial rocket development and launch company, a scientist with a state-owned space technology enterprise said Tuesday. Hu Shengyun, c...
China's ambition after space station
Mar 08, 2016 (XNA)
China will manage to exploit the space between earth and the moon for solar power and other resources after it builds a space station in 2020, Lt Gen. Zhang Yul...
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