A CZ-2F rocket launched the first Chinese astronaut, Yang Liwei, into space in October 2003. With this mission, the Chinese became the third country to launch a human into orbit. Chinese orbital launches currently originate from one of four launch sites, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TS...
may 28, 2023 by reuters | may 28, 2023, at 9:14 p.m. save comment more china will launch shenzhou-16 mission to chinese space station on may 30 more reuters astronauts jing haipeng, zhu yangzhu and gui haichao attend a press conference before the shenzhou-16 spaceflight m...
A village near South China’s Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site has undergone a drastic transformation in recent years. Spectators coming to watch rocket launches have turned it into a tourist hotspot. Our Li Jianhua has more. Reminders of space exploration are everywhere here, a small village tucke...
China’s development of launch vehicles is sticking to the “self-reliance and independent innovation” path. With more than 50 years’ experience, China has successfully developed more than ten models of launch vehicles and managed the transition from research test to flight application and from fl...
This chapter provides an overview of China's space launch plan. This chapter mainly presents the development history of China's launch vehicles, launch vehicles in service, and the new generation of launch vehicles under development and describes the efforts made by China in the field of space ...
Landspace — which also flies the expendable, and currently operational, Zhuque-2 rocket— isn't the only Chinese outfit working to develop a reusable launch vehicle, as SpaceNews notes. Others include the companies iSpace, Galactic Energy and Orienspace, as well as the state-owned China Aerosp...
Beijing-based iSpace announced on Tuesday that it has garnered nearly 1.2 billion yuan ($174 million) in a Series B funding round in what is the largest financing in a privately-owned commercial space launch startup in China to date. ...
As China gains momentum in space exploration, what does it mean for the younger generation? This student satellite group in China's eastern city of Ningbo have their answer to that question! In 2019, these high-school students successfully launched their own satellite into sp...
A seeing-off ceremony for three Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou-13 manned space mission is being held in the evening of Friday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. A Long March-2F carrier rocket with the spaceship atop will be launched at 12:23 a.m....
China has also been criticized many times for allowing the massive Long March 5 rocket to fall back to Earth naturally, causing space debris, following launches of the heavy-launch system. China has inland launch sites, compared to coastal launch sites, which allow rocket debris to land in the...