07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... aboard the International Space Station, Glavkosmos and China are also currently aiming to make their GLONASS...as the agency looks to the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) with plans to create a unified system to remotely ...
18 May 2018
China launches its first private space rocket
... OneSpace is heading; “we will develop bigger rockets in the future and participate in the global competition,” explained Chang to China Daily. OneSpace said that the rocket, named 'Chongqing Liangjiang Star' is designed for suborbital flights that...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... was also reaffirmed this week. Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, and Zhang Keqiang, head of the China National Space Administration were on hand to sign the cooperation documents in Russia on Tuesday. Russia’s Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft...
02 September 2019
Strange substance discovered by China's lunar rover on far side of the Moon
Despite passing its design lifetime of three Earth months, China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover Yutu-2 – the first man-made spacecraft launched to the far side of the moon – is ...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... of cargo from Earth. The solution is to carry only the raw materials needed to cultivate plants in situ. An image of China s Chang e 4 lander on the lunar surface taken by the Yutu-2 rover. Gravity is a major factor in plant growth, so it is crucial...
02 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
... a first in the history of space exploration. The orbiter containing the lunar material is programmed to land in northern China's Inner Mongolia region later in December. The returner is scheduled to reenter the atmosphere and land at Siziwang Banner...
