27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
.... Along with successfully landing a rover on Mars, the nation recently began work on its Tiangong space station. Chinese astronauts are currently working on its 22-tonne core module that was sent into near-Earth orbit ...
07 May 2021
Fears can ease over uncontrolled Chinese rocket reentry this weekend say trackers
... the atmospheric reentry of a Chinese rocket stage that launched the first piece of the country’s first space station last week, could result in the debris hitting populated areas this weekend can be relaxed say space tracking experts, as there...
15 October 2021
China to launch astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
... who in 2008 performed the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut. Yaping, 41, will become the first woman astronaut to visit the nation's space station. She previously became China's second woman in space in 2013, meanwhile former Air Force pilot...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
...but also gears up to send three astronauts to its orbiting space station in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today,... and dock with the Tianhe space station module. Three taikonauts, the name for Chinese astronauts, are expected to be...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
.... China is already working on the construction of a modular space station, and with this craft it will enable the nation to expand its exploration ambitions to the moon; something Chinese space officials have said the country is looking to carry out...
06 May 2020
China launches prototype spacecraft on maiden flight of Long March 5B
... yesterday, clearing the way forward for the launcher to carry space station modules to low Earth orbit. The 53.7-metre-tall (176... to heaven’, and taken from a poem written by the ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan, will utilise a Long March 5 rocket in its...
