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Chinese Land Rover on Moon
Yutu rolls out onto the moon. (Credit: CNSA) UPDATE: The Yutu rover has rolled out onto the moon. China successfully soft landed a vehicle on the surface of the moon today, becoming only the third...
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SXC Targets Growing Chinese Market for Lynx Flights
An update on SXC’s expansion into Asia, where it is targeting the growing number of wealthy Chinese adventure travelers: Chinese travellers will be able to undertake space trips by 2014 end following...
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China Enjoyed Stellar Year in Space
Yutu rolls out onto the moon. (Credit: CNSA) China had a highly successful year in space in 2013, sending a second crew to live aboard the Tiangong-1 space station in June and becoming only the third...
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Virgin Galactic’s Ban on Selling Tickets to Chinese Citizens
SpaceShipTwo ignites its engine above Koehn Lake on its third powered flight. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) It was a great story while it lasted, one full of spies, technological espionage, Cold War-style...
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China & Russia Sign Space Pact, But What Will It Produce?
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. (Credit: A. Savin) With ties with the United States frayed over Ukraine, Russia has rushed to deepen its ties with China. Everyone’s favorite Josef Stalin-loving...
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China Looks to Recover Booster Stages
Long March launch Last week, China Space News published a short article on efforts by engineers to recover rocket boosters for later reuse. Based on a Google Translate version of the original article,...
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Is China Planning Test of Human Lunar Vehicle?
Toward the end of the year, China will launch a spacecraft to the moon that will return for a soft landing on Earth. Officially, this is a test of a ship that will return soil samples from the moon,...
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Chinese Move Forward With Space Station Plans
China’s Tiangong-1 space laboratory with a Shenzhou spacecraft approaching it. (Credit: CNSA) Chinese officials say they are looking to complete a permanent, multi-module space station in Earth orbit...
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China Launches Lunar Sample Return Precursor Mission
4M payload (Credit: LuxSpace) China has launched a spacecraft to the moon designed to pave the way for a future lunar sample return mission. The spacecraft, launched today aboard a Long March 3C...
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China Outlines Space Station, Moon and Mars Plans
The crew of Shenzhou-10 after 15 days in space. (Credit: CNSA) Lei Fanpei, chairman of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), have given journalists an outline of the China’s...
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China to Launch Second Space Station Next Year; Moon Plans Remain Uncertain
Model of the Tiangong-2 space station China plans to launch a larger space station next year that will have the capability of being resupplied by robotic cargo ships. The Tianzhou-1, which literally...
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China Eyes Next Generation Crew Vehicle for Deep Space Missions
China is eyeing a next-generation human space transportation system to carry taikonauts to future space stations and to conduct missions to the moon, Mars and asteroids, according to a report on a...
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U.S. Report Wearily Eyes Rise of Chinese Space Program
Long March launch A section of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2015 Report to Congress casts a weary eye on the rise of the Chinese space program. “China’s rise as a major...
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NASA Gets $1.27 Billion Boost in Spending Measure
NASA would received $19.3 billion in FY 2016 under an Omnibus spending measure unveiled early Wednesday by Congress. The amount would be $1.27 billion more than last year and $756 million above the...
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China Working on Reusable Launch Vehicles & Spacecraft
Shenzhou capsule Spurred on by developments in the United States, China says it is working on reusable human spacecraft and launch vehicles. China is studying how to retrieve and reuse manned...
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China Eyes Human Mission to Moon in 2036
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University China is eying a human landing on the moon in about 20 years. China wants to put astronauts on the moon by 2036, a senior space official said, the...
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Next Generation Chinese Human Spacecraft to Fly in June
Next generation Chinese human spacecraft China’s news launch vehicle, Long March -7, will carry a scaled-down version of a next-generation Chinese human spacecraft on its inaugural flight in June. The...
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China’s Satellite Launch Vehicle Surge
A Long March 3-B rocket lifts off with China’s Chang’e-3 lunar rover. (Credit: CAST) China is in the midst of an overhaul of its satellite launch capabilities, with the introduction of five new launch...
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China to Debut New Spaceport & New Rocket Next Month
Long March 5 model The inaugural flight of China’s new Long March 7 rocket next month will be the first launch from the nation’s newest spaceport. Long March 7 will carry a prototype re-entry capsule...
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Long March 7 Makes Successful Inaugural Flight
Model of Long March 7 booster China debuted the new medium-lift Long March 7 launch vehicle on Saturday from its new Wenchang Space Launch Center. It was the first launch from the new coastal...
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