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More Tasks for China's Moon Mission
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
Later this year, China will launch a robotic spacecraft to the Moon and back. We have known about this mission for some time, and we know roughly what the missi...
China's Circumlunar Spacecraft Unmasked
Aug 03, 2014 (SPX)
Later this year, China will send a spacecraft out to the Moon, then return it to Earth. The uncrewed vehicle will fly around the far side of the Moon and use th...
China to launch HD observation satellite this year
Jul 25, 2014 (XNA)
China will launch Gaofen-2, a high-definition Earth observation satellite, to space this year, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and ...
Lunar rock collisions behind Yutu damage
Jul 23, 2014 (XNA)
Ailing Chinese moon rover Yutu, or "Jade Rabbit," might have been damaged by knocking against rocks on a lunar surface that is more complicated than expected, i...
China's Fast Track To Circumlunar Mission
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
Earlier in Space Daily, this analyst presented circumstantial evidence for a future Chinese astronaut mission to the Moon. China seems to be planning a circumlu...
Yutu designer's bittersweet
Jul 07, 2014 (XNA)
Jia Yang has two children. One goes to a middle school in Beijing; the other is on the moon. The trials of parenthood have been far more arduous with the second...
Chinese moon rover designer shooting for Mars
Jul 04, 2014 (AFP)
The man who designed China's Jade Rabbit moon rover hopes a more advanced version of his creation will be sent to Mars, state media reported, underscoring Beiji...
China plans to land rover on Mars by 2020
Jul 01, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
China is planning to land a rover on Mars by 2020 and bring back samples from the Red Planet a decade later, according to a top scientist with the country's Lun...
Are China's Astronauts Moonbound
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
China has made tremendous progress with its lunar exploration program. It has sent two spacecraft to orbit the Moon and has also landed a robot rover on the sur...
Chinese lunar rover alive but weak
May 29, 2014 (XNA)
China's troubled lunar rover Yutu is still alive and functional after more than five months on the moon, a lunar program official said Wednesday. Its functional...
China's Jade Rabbit moon rover 'alive but struggling'
May 28, 2014 (AFP)
China's troubled Jade Rabbit moon rover is still alive after more than five months on the moon but is heading for an icy death, state media reported on Wednesda...
Chinese space team survives on worm diet for 105 days
May 26, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
A Chinese team has emerged from a sealed capsule, in which they subsisted on mealworms and plants for over three months in a study designed to determine if the ...
Moon rover Yutu comes closer to public
May 16, 2014 (XNA)
A small replica of lunar rover Yutu, the Jade Rabbit, has gone on show in Beijing. The model, half the size of the real rover, is the star of the 17th China Bei...
The Phantom Tiangong
May 13, 2014 (SPX)
China's first space laboratory is still in orbit and still working. The Tiangong 1 spacecraft is observing the Earth and measuring the space environment more th...
New satellite launch center to conduct joint drill
May 08, 2014 (XNA)
China's new satellite launch center, located in south China's Hainan Province, will conduct a joint drill in the second half of this year. The drill at the Wenc...
China issues first assessment on space activities
Apr 23, 2014 (XNA)
A leading space research group in China released the country's first assessment of the current situation and future trends of international space activities on ...
Tiangong's New Mission
Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)
The mission of China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1, is not finished yet. Originally advertised with an operational lifespan of two years, Tiangong 1 pass...
Space Odyssey: China's aspiration in future space exploration
Mar 13, 2014 (XNA)
In near future, in outer space, Chinese scientists and their international colleagues, perhaps in the company of robots, will seek knowledge in labs on China's ...
China to launch first space shuttle bus this year
Mar 09, 2014 (XNA)
China is expected to launch an upper stage aircraft this year that can be used as a "space shuttle bus" to propel payload in space, a senior official in charge ...
China expects to launch cargo ship into space around 2016
Mar 06, 2014 (XNA)
China is expected to launch a cargo ship into space around 2016 to serve the Tiangong-2 space laboratory, a leading space scientist said Sunday. The cargo ship,...
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