25 March 2020
China to launch experimental deep-space spacecraft in April
... state media this week. The experimental spacecraft is currently being tested at the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's island province of Hainan and will launch without a crew onboard in mid to late April, Xinhua news agency...
23 November 2020
China's lunar sample return mission to launch tonight
... mission by relaying signals from the spacecraft during two critical phases. Scheduled to lift off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan, a 57-metre Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket, which was transported to a port...
29 April 2021
China launches first section of its massive space station
... the country's ambitious plan to establish a permanent human presence in space. As the countdown ticked down to zero at 11:23 am (local time) at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, 10 engines at the bottom of a Long March 5B heavy...
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... loft the core module into orbit successfully completes its pre-launch examinations. China’s space agency moved the Long March to the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan in preparation for the flight on 23 April. According...
19 February 2021
China's astronauts begin training for space station missions
... have said. In the coming months, the station's core module will be lifted into space by a Long March 5B rocket launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province. The module, named Tianhe, or Harmony of Heavens, will have three parts...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
.... China’s new large carrier rocket Long March 5B blasts off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province. Generations The idea of commercial space in China effectively began in late 2014, with the passage of ‘Document 60’ by the...
