April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
...programmes under President Xi and has made enormous progress to catch up with the US and Russia. Last year, China became the first country to land a rover on the far side of the Moon and, in July, launched its first mission to Mars. Then, in December...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...17 attempts. Long March 3B launches China’s Chang’e 4 lander/rover mission to the far side of the Moon. Launch reliability Last year was a historically reliable one for launch vehicles. Of the 114 orbital launches, there were only four launch vehicle...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... planet’s surface some 2–3 months after the arrival of the spacecraft. The rover is nearly twice the mass of China's Yutu-2 rover, which is currently ambling over lunar terrain on the far side of the moon. According to a new paper published in Nature...
