Following a number of rumors about a possible military launch from Jiuquan, China has launched a new remote sensing satellite, the Yaogan-II. The launch marked the 100th successful orbital launch for China.
The launch took place at 08:12 GMT on Friday, using a CZ-2D Chang Zheng-2D (CZ2D-8). The first Yaogan satellite was launched from [...]

China is preparing its own Mars probe – Yinghuo-1 – that will hitch-hike a ride to the Red Planet with the Russian Phobus-Grunt probe.
The development of the probe started at the Shangai Academy of Spaceflight in late 2006, and a prototype will be ready by April 2008. The Mars probe will be ready [...]

The Chinese State Council has announced their 11th five-year plan for space exploration, a plan that aims to give priority to manned spaceflight, lunar exploration, a new launch vehicle and high-resolution Earth observation.
Other aspects of the five-year plan are focused on the promotion of industrialization of space technologies, and the encouragement of non-governmental [...]

China has launched the first communications satellite for Nigeria using a CZ-3B Chang Zheng-3B from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province. Launch occured at 4:01pm (UTC), Sunday.
The launch of the NigComSat-1 – which was confirmed a few hours later by Chinese news services – was conducted on the 98th flight of China’s [...]

China have successfully launched their second Compass navigation satellite, which lifted off 4:11 am local time on Saturday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The Long March 3-A launch vehicle placed the Beidou-2B satellite in a 21,500 km orbit.
The launch comes just two days after the CZ-2C Chang Zheng-2C (CZ2C-16) launch of China’s [...]

China has launched its second ocean survey satellite, Haiyang-1 – a crucial component of China’s three dimensional survey system.
The new spacecraft was launched on a CZ-2C Chang Zheng-2C (CZ2C-16) from Taiyuan Satellite Launching Center at 03:27 UTC Wednesday, China’s second launch in two months, following the Long March 3-A launch vehicle lift-off with [...]

A Chinese Long March 3-A launch vehicle has launched a communications satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province today at 16:28pm UK time.
The “Beidou” (Compass) satellite is part of a planned GPS constellation of 35 satellites, including five geo-stationary (GEO) Earth orbit satellites and 30 medium Earth orbit satellites. [...]

Following the failure of the recently launched SinoSat-2, China have announced they won’t be wasting any time in replacing the failed broadcasting satellite, launching SinoSat-3 in May of next year.
SinoSat-2 was successfully launched into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) on a Chinese Long March 3B launch vehicle on October 28, but suffered a [...]

A Chinese Long March 3B launch vehicle has successfully entered the Xinnuo 2 (Sinosat-2) broadcasting satellite into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) in the early hours of Sunday local time, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
The launch marks another milestone in China’s conservative, yet progressive, road towards becoming [...]

China Center for Resources Satellite Data & Application (CRESDA) has announced it will launch 18 satellites over the next 10 years, making up a constellation of land, environmental, marine and meteorological resources.
The first of the 18 – named 02B – will be a Sino-Brazilian ‘earth resource’ satellite, set to launch next year.

China has postponed the third of their manned space missions until 2008 – a delay of six months – due to the need for more preparation time on the space walk element of the mission.
Chinese media agency Xinhua report that a senior consultant to China’s space program confirmed the need for a delay [...]

China has started assembly of their Moon rocket, with an unmanned orbiter scheduled to take a trip around Moon in 2007.
Speaking to the Xinhua News Agency, Luan Enjie – commander of the Chang’e 1 Lunar Orbiter “Round the Moon” project – noted the Moon rocket is being assembled and tested, with the new [...]

China – who once again reiterated their ambitious plans for their fledgling space program – have received praise from Russian officials, who continue to be open to full cooperation on manned missions to the Moon and Mars.
Chinese space officials have been consistently claiming they intend to build a space station and a manned [...]

A powerful new space organization – led by China and Pakistan – is about to become a reality with the birth of Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) this coming Friday.
The two nations will be joined by Thailand, Bangladesh, Mongolia and Peru – alongside Iran, which is bound to attract the attentions of the [...]

China’s second manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI has touched down successfully in Inner Mongolia after orbiting the Earth for five days.
The country stepped up a gush of patriotic fanfare as the two astronauts reported they had landed safely and were in good health after the space capsule touched down in the remote steppes of [...]

China has launched its second manned mission, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on time at 9am local time.
The mission has been largely shrouded in secrecy in the run up to the launch, which will have two astronauts on board. Live webcasts of the event appeared to have been censored – or at [...]

China’s dream of a permanent manned presence on the space frontier will be one step closer to reality, if all goes according to the plans of the morning of Thursday, October 13, 2005.
On that day, the Shenzhou VI spacecraft will blast off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base and place two Chinese taikonauts [...]