10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... captured image of Mars from a distance of 2.2 million kilometres. The black-and-white photo released on 5 February by the China National Space Administration showed geological features including the Schiaparelli crater and the Valles Marineris, one...
04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
...March 5 which was touted to be the rocket of choice to get China's Chang'e-5 sample-return mission to the Moon in November 2017. In ... lunar settlement. Plans that involve the largest member of China's rocket fleet - whose power about equals that of ...
16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
...’s lunar missions, and a possible probe to Mars around 2020, China is also forging ahead with its orbital station – a project it... Li said that Russia is one of the key partners in China's space programs. The two countries he said held annual meetings ...
15 October 2021
China to launch astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
... Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China. The crew consists of commander Zhai Zhigang, military pilot Wang ...selection and training has already taken place between China and foreign countries. Guangfu for example became the...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
...see if one day it is possible to colonise Mars. "China's steadfast commitments to space probes and the development of the ..., but also at serving the progress of all mankind," said China’s Xinhua News agency writer Jiang Li. “With an explosion of ...
16 September 2016
China launches its second space lab 'Tiangong 2' into orbit
...into the skies from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northwestern Gobi Desert on the back of a Long ...called POLAR. POLAR is a joint collaboration between Swiss, China and Polish scientists with support from the European Space Agency ...
