May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... Sat, Scepter Air, Pixxel, SatelliteVu, Cervest, Sust Global and RS Metrics. Chinese astronaut Tang Hongbo of the Shenzhou-12 mission works inside the core module Tianhe of the Chinese space station during 2021. Rising tension...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... gravel way at 1 km/hr. The VAB concept was emulated by more recent structures worldwide: Jiuquan, 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 2025
Racing to the Moon
... be mixed with nitrogen or other buffer gasses to breathe. A photograph of the Tiangong space station taken by a member of the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft crew as it made its way back to Earth after delivering three crew members to the station. Not...
04 September 2020
China announces launch of a reusable experimental spacecraft
... of the Long March-2F carrier rocket, which made its maiden flight over 20 years ago with the Shenzhou 1 spacecraft.
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... be the first of 11 missions to transport and build the orbital station. After the module is launched, astronauts on the Shenzhou XII and XIII missions and two cargo ships will be launched within a few months to prepare the...
18 January 2022
First of 40 planned launches for China
... pounds (about 1.3 metric tons) into a polar, sun-synchronous orbit. There are currently three astronauts on China’s Shenzhou 13 spacecraft on the Tianhe space station. They were launched in October and, if the planned six-month mission...
