At 0909 GMT on 22 March, a Kuaizhou-1A rocket built by CASIC affiliate ExPace Technology Corp carried four meteorological microsatellites into LEO. The mission took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, in service of another CASIC-related entity...
China successfully launched a Chinese Long March 3B/E rocket carrying the a new geostationary Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-13 02. The lift off from Xichang Satellite Lunch Centre took place at 0833 GMT on 17 March. Officially, Gaofen-13 02 will be used for...
China successfully launched a Long March 2C from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0402 GMT on 13 March. The vehicle was carrying Horus 2, a remote sensing satellite for the Egyptian Space Agency. The satellite successfully entered its planned orbit, according to...
At 2241 GMT on 9 March, China launched a pair of Tianhui-6 satellites to sun-synchronous LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, and utilised a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket. The two spacecraft, Tianhui-6 A and B, are described as...
China has revealed a model of its lunar landing craft at the National Museum of China in Beijing, with which it hopes to carry its astronauts (‘taikonuats’) onto the Moon by 2030 or earlier. The model appears to have a “transfer stage”...
Under a veil of secrecy, Shenzhou 15 taikonauts Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu exited the Chinese Experiment Module I (Wentian/CSS) of the Chinese Space Station for their second extravehicular activity (EVA) sometime between 28 February and 1 March 2023. The first...
