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5 (Xinhua) -- A private Chinese company sent a suborbital rocket into space at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The SQX-1Z was developed by iSpace, a Beijing-based private rocket developer, founded in 2016 with a research center in Xi'an,...
Companies including SpaceX are working on methane as a safer alternative to solid propellants and liquid hydrogen. However, LandSpace is the first to send what could become the next generation of launch vehicles into space.
SpaceX is a private spaceflight company that regularly delivers payloads to the ISS. Here are the basics about the company and its founder and CEO, Elon Musk.
A Long March-2F Y13 rocket carrying the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft blasted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, October 16, 2021. /CFP The launch of commercial rocketCERES-1 Y2 on December 7marked another milestone for private space companies in China, as...
The company also plans to launch ZQ-2, a liquid-fueled rocket, in 2020. China has more than 60 private companies entering the commercial space industry. They are growing fast and competing in market for launches of small satellites and rockets....
While SpaceX is not the sole new launch company, it has set the pace for reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of space launches. Companies like Rocket Lab have started to compete with Elon Musk’s company. The Blue Origin New Glenn, now in development, will provide more ...
NASA has selected SpaceX, Orbital ATK and Sierra Nevada Corp. to fly cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) starting in 2019, the agency announced today (Jan 14). Between 2019 and 2024, NASA will purchase a minimum of six uncrewed cargo missions from each of the three companies, ...
“Great industries are usually built by not just one or two or three companies, but usually by dozens of companies. There can be many winners,” Bezos said during a talk here at the Space Symposium. SEE ALSO:Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is doing cool things for spaceflight. So why all the ...
So-called “civil military fusion” has been most apparent in the space industry. Until recently, only Chinese state-owned firms were permitted to build, launch and operate satellites. In 2014,new rulesbegan allowing private companies to participate. ...