03 January 2019
Chinese goddess lands on far side of the Moon
... surface that appears to be illuminated by a light from the probe. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) landed its robotic probe Chang’e 4 in the unexplored South Pole-Aitken basin. It is thought to be the largest, oldest and deepest crater...
30 September 2021
China, Russia to present lunar station declaration at IAC in Dubai
... and the China National Space Administration will present a declaration regarding a future International Lunar Research Station at the International Astronautical Congress in Dubai, Roscosmos said in a news release on Monday. Roscosmos and CNSA...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... including Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of China National Space Administration and Zhang Kejian, the administrator of China National Space Administration. During his welcome speech, Zhang said that the exploration for the vast cosmos is a shared...
17 May 2021
China's Zhurong rover touches down on Mars
... its pre-selected landing area in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of Mars, at 7:18 am (Beijing Time), the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. However CNSA have yet to release any images...
30 November 2020
Chang'e 5 separates from spacecraft, prepares for a lunar soft landing
...a.m. Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Launched on 24 November, Chang'e-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in China's aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... has India waited until now to join? One answer is that the Artemis Accords have a competitor. In March 2021 Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a planned lunar base...
