September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
...mission, using commercial ground stations to provide communications to cis-lunar space. The system would connect with the far side of the Moon, its southern hemisphere and the South Pole. Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is developing this idea...
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... China's Jiangsu Province on Saturday, the chief designer of the third stage of China's lunar exploration program, Hu Hao, said the country is aiming to launch its Chang'e 6 probe to the far side of the moon around 2024. The backup to China’s Chang...
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...
