...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...
... 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...
... 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-...
...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....
... 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...
... 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...