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China to launch manned spacecraft
Nov 10, 2012 (UPI)
China is set to launch a manned spacecraft in June 2013, a space program official said Saturday. The spacecraft, Shenzhou-10, will likely have a crew of two mal...
China plans manned space launch in 2013: state media
Nov 10, 2012 (AFP)
China is aiming to launch its next manned space mission as early as June 2013, state media reported Saturday, as the country steps up its ambitious exploration ...
Tiangong 1 Parked And Waiting As Shenzhou 10 Mission Prep Continues
Nov 05, 2012 (SPX)
Following the July-August period when controllers used Tiangong 1's thrusters for strict control of the orbit decay rate, things went quiet and Tiangong 1 settl...
China makes progress in spaceflight research
Oct 25, 2012 (XNA)
China has made breakthroughs in researching spaceflight dynamics, a top scientist said Wednesday. Progress has been made in spaceflight trajectory computation a...
China to launch 11 meteorological satellites by 2020
Oct 25, 2012 (XNA)
China will launch 11 meteorological satellites before 2020 to boost the country's weather monitoring network, according to the country's meteorological satellit...
Patience for Tiangong
Oct 22, 2012 (SPX)
We are now several months beyond the first crewed expedition to Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. If educated guesses are any guide, we are probably s...
China launches civilian technology satellites
Oct 15, 2012 (XNA)
China successfully launched the Practice-9 A and Practice-9 B satellites into space at 11:25 a.m. Sunday, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said. The satellit...
ChangE-2 Mission To Lagrange L2 Point
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
Last week, the 63rd International Astronautical Congress was held in Naples, Italy. One of the more interesting papers addresses the recent Chinese Chang'e-2 mi...
Meeting of heads of ESA and China Manned Space Agency
Oct 10, 2012 (ESA)
Wang Zhaoyao, Director General of the China Manned Space Agency, accompanied by the first Chinese female astronaut, Liu Yang, met ESA Director General Jean-Jacq...
China Spacesat gets 18-million-USD gov't support
Sep 25, 2012 (XNA)
China Spacesat Co., Ltd., the nation's key developer of small satellites, said on Saturday that it will obtain 116 million yuan (18.3 million U.S. dollars) in g...
Tiangong Orbit Change Signals Likely Date for Shenzhou 10
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
August 30, Tiangong 1's controllers raised its orbit by 11 kilometres, indicating that a target date for the Shenzhou 10 mission has probably been set. As Augus...
China Focus: Timeline for China's space research revealed
Sep 04, 2012 (XNA)
A senior Chinese astronomer on Friday revealed a timeline for China's planned program of space research. In an interview with Xinhua, Zhang Shuangnan, an astrop...
China eyes next lunar landing as US scales back
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
Neil Armstrong's 1969 lunar landing marked a pinnacle of US technological achievement, defining what many saw as the American century, but the next person to se...
China unveils ambitious space projects
Aug 23, 2012 (XNA)
China will launch several space projects, including a hard X-ray telescope for black hole studies, between 2014 and 2016, according to a senior Chinese astronom...
Is China Going to Blast Past America in Space?
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
In recent weeks China has appeared prominently in the international media. To the layman it would seem that the Asian superpower is advancing its space technolo...
Hong Kong people share joy of China's manned space program
Aug 13, 2012 (XNA)
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung said Friday that Hong Kong people shared the joy of the nation's remarkable achievements in its manned space mission, which h...
China's Long March-5 carrier rocket engine undergoes testing
Aug 01, 2012 (XNA)
China on Sunday successfully conducted tests on its new 120-tonne-thrust liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene engine for its new generation carrier rocket, the Long...
China to land first moon probe next year
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
China has said it will land an exploratory craft on the moon for the first time next year, as part of an ambitious space programme that includes a long-term pla...
China launches Third satellite in its global data relay network
Jul 30, 2012 (XNA)
China successfully launched the Tianlian I-03 satellite on Wednesday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, completing the country's firs...
Looking Forward to Shenzhou 10
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
Even as Shenzhou 9 undocked from Tiangong 1, and before it returned to Earth, the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre was starting preparations for the Shenzhou 10...
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