23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
...Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Along with Perseverance and Tianwen-1, the UAE's Hope mission makes up the trio of ... understanding of the Red Planet, China has also remarked that the Tianwen-1 is also on fact-finding mission to see if one day ...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... at Utopia Planitia; a huge basin located in northeastern Mars that was formed by a large impact early in Mars' history. Tianwen-1’s main task is, “to perform a global and extensive survey of the entire planet,” which China hopes will be achieved...
06 May 2020
China launches prototype spacecraft on maiden flight of Long March 5B
... to launch activity. With the prototype spacecraft safely deployed, China is now likely to proceed with its Tianwen-1 mission in July. Tianwen-1, meaning ‘questions to heaven’, and taken from a poem written by the ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan, will...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... have several robotic missions arriving at Mars from NASA, China and the United Arab Emirates (Mars2020, Tianwen-1 and Hope, respectively). These missions will explore the atmosphere and the surface of our fascinating neighbour...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... be interesting to watch as China attempts this as well,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. China’s Tianwen-1 mission this summer includes a rover, while the United Arab Emirates is preparing to launch its Hope probe...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... to temperatures as low as minus 90 degrees Celsius (minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit) at Jezero Crater. Like the two missions, Tianwen-1 and the UAE’s Hope mission, that lifted off ahead of Perseverance, NASA’s mission will also reach...
