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...
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....
