04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
... September. However, despite efforts to change its flight path after its successful blast off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in China, the Long March 5 came crashing back down to Earth. The rocket was carrying Shijian-18, a seven...
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...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... case of ballistic re-entry. Also, tracking ships would have to be re-deployed in the Indian Ocean and near the Wenchang Space Launch Centre, and all emergency landing sites worldwide would have to be re-planned and prepared. China has expressed its...
