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...
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... pre-launch examinations. China’s space agency moved the Long March to the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island..., ‘Wentian' and 'Mengtian' will be launched in separate Long March 5B missions and once complete the outpost will form a T-...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
...out scientific exploration. Meanwhile, earlier in the week, a Long March 2F rocket was vertically transferred to its pad at the ... cargo mission last month suggests that liftoff for the Long March could also be deferred for a week reports SpaceNews....
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...
