May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... broadcaster based in Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of Japan in space - past present and future (Praxis/Springer 2023), China in Space - the Great Leap (2nd edition) (Praxis/Springer, 2019), European-Russian Cooperation in Space - from de Gaulle...
25 November 2020
Chang'e 5 is on its way to the Moon
... systems and is responsible for the reception, processing, and storage management of scientific data and samples. The China Lunar Exploration Project is a major national science and technology special landmark project defined in the “National Medium...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...Achilles’ heel of US military power. Countries like Russia, China, and even nations with more modest capabilities and resources, are... that shrouds the programmes of the US, Russia and China, and the relative ignorance of space matters among large...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... Apparently shaken by the success of the Indian mission, China immediately began analysing the reasons why it was so successful... by its low price advantage, a weak point for China’s commercial space sector.” “Competition with India for commercial ...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... reputation, Ouyang had to be resourceful, meticulously analysing an Apollo 17 sample, gifted to the country, and meteorites collected both in China and Antarctica. Now in his mid-80s, Ouyang is jubilant about the success and promise of the Chang...
17 December 2020
Chang'e 5 probe returns to Earth with Moon rocks
... dust landing on the grasslands in northern China. The China National Space Administration said in a statement that... the Oceanus Procellarum – a region that was previously unexplored, China's space agency said. While there it also raised the Chinese...
