May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...on 24 April 1970, a date that has since become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s ...satellite capacity does leave Cambodia open to China’s whims. Ultimately, China’s more recent strategy of building and operating...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...it has surpassed the US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... bad temper and operate a space station with China. Shortly before China launched its first space station, Tianhe in April... if the effect of their sanctions is to drive Russia and China together. They have also had the knock-on effect of reducing ...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...with the passage of ‘Document 60’ by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) The idea of commercial space in China effectively began in late 2014, with the passage of ‘Document 60’ by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... and the Shenzhou-XII and Shenzhou-XIII crewed spacecraft. The China Space Station has travelled stably in a near-circular orbit ...between the two spacecraft. In view of the foregoing, China wishes to request the Secretary-General of the United Nations...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
...on the arid and dusty martian surface. Twice as massive as China’s two lunar rovers, the Mars rover will be equipped with ... over 140 space cooperation protocols have been signed by China with 45 countries and international organisations, but ties with...
