May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...with the west, there is another option that is becoming increasingly viable: China. Images of the failure of the Long March rocket carrying Intelsat-708 on 15 February 1996. Transactional space collaboration China’s space sector began in earnest with...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... was built because China’s recent, larger rockets, the Long March CZ-5 and CZ-7, were too big for railways, its coastal..., China for the Shenzhou rocket; Wenchang China, for the Long March CZ-5 and CZ-7; Sriharikota, for India’s PSLV and GLSV launchers...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... numbers – mainly via its national space programmes – Western launch providers are at least grateful that its Long March and other rockets cannot directly compete for commercial launches due to satellite technology transfer restrictions. Nevertheless...
27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
... rocket currently under development to construct the massive space-based solar power station. More than 100 Long March 9 launches and around 10,000 tons of infrastructure, assembled in orbit, would be needed to build the solar power facility...
25 November 2020
Chang'e 5 is on its way to the Moon
... into the scheduled trajectory, starting China’s first return journey from sampling of extraterrestrial objects. After the Long March 5 carrier rocket was launched into space, it carried out four separations, including booster separation, fairing...
25 March 2020
China to launch experimental deep-space spacecraft in April
... China's current Shenzhou crewed spaceship, will be lofted to space on the maiden flight of the Long March-5B carrier rocket, a variant of the Long March-5, China's largest carrier rocket. The craft is also designed to be reusable. As the new craft...
