21 September 2016
China's first space lab is heading for a crash landing
... ground or affect aviation activities, be that as it may China will continue to monitor Tiangong-1 and strengthen early warning for...lab might not burn up on re-entry, Ping highlighted China’s commitment to the plight of its plunging spacecraft, which ...
04 September 2020
China announces launch of a reusable experimental spacecraft
... bystander images of the craft appearing on social media, noted Andrew Jones, a prominent science journalist who covers China's space industry. Although much secrecy surrounds the mission, plans to launch a reusable spacecraft in 2020 were revealed...
27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
... space power plant; another complex megaproject under consideration by China. According to a plan by the Chinese government, the...an orbit 35,786 kilometres above the Earth, Lehao said. China is going from strength to strength in its ambitious space ...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...formerly known as the Next-Generation Crewed Spacecraft, displayed at the National Museum of China. Artemis architecture China’s leader, Xi Jinping, wants China to be “a great space power” In early Artemis missions, a super heavy-lift SpaceX Starship...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
...had also delivered the Chang'e 3 stationary lander. It was China's first landing on another celestial body, and while Yutu's mission...projected lifespan by 10 times. According to reports from China's Xinhua news agency, the rover has finally succumbed ...
03 January 2019
Chinese goddess lands on far side of the Moon
... sometimes referred to as the ‘dark side' because so little is known about it. A photo taken by the lunar explorer Chang’e 4 at 11.40 am China time (3.40 GMT) and published online by the official Xinhua News Agency shows a small crater and a barren...
