10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
... fifth robotic rover, Perseverance, on the surface of Mars,. China meanwhile has similar martian ambitions with its Tianwen-1 probe currently in orbit around the Red Planet and plans are currently underway for the construction...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
The 2020s have already proved to be an unprecedented decade in many ways. The first 16 months brought a global pandemic, economic changes, progressive digitisation and, oddly enough, increased interest in the space sector. The western space sector ...
17 May 2021
China's Zhurong rover touches down on Mars
... Saturday morning and met those involved in the landing operation after Xi's letter was read. The touchdown of Tianwen 1 on Mars was the latest example of China's rapidly expanding presence in outer space, following a string of recent accomplishments...
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...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... for our discovery? The recent deployment of the Perseverance and Zhurong rovers as a part of the Mars20 and Tianwen-1 missions respectively, will take samples of Martian regolith and explore surface geology. Perseverance will look for...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... recently was the exclusive realm of the United States and the former Soviet Union. A Mars lander (Tianwen-1, implying ‘pursuit of knowledge of the heavens’) touched down on Utopia Planitia and deployed a simple rover Zhurong (‘god...
