07 May 2021
Fears can ease over uncontrolled Chinese rocket reentry this weekend say trackers
Fears that the atmospheric reentry of a Chinese rocket stage that launched the first piece of the country’s first space station last week, could result in the debris hitting populated areas this weekend can be relaxed say space tracking experts, as ...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...auspices of the United Nations in Vienna, China invited countries to propose scientific experiments. Opportunities were extensive because Tianhe and the science modules Wentian and Mengtian had room for 17 tonnes of experimental equipment both inside...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... decade as we entered the 2020s. Full-size display model of the core module of China’s new space station Tianhe. Seeds of disruption The 2020s in China started in a similar way to much of the rest of the world, with the...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... spaceflight marketplace, China also plans to develop its own infrastructures in LEO and has recently launched the Tianhe core module of the China Space Station (CSS). Driven by these ambitious goals, government investment in space exploration...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... 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 The ‘Cloud’ is also transforming space and Cloud...
18 January 2022
First of 40 planned launches for China
... 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 is completed, it will become...
