This week’s Tianzhou 8 mission has delivered supplies to the three taikonauts who recently arrived at the Tiangong Space Station on the Shenzhou 19 mission. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has announced two commercial contracts to service the station with cargo resupply missions in the future via two new vehicle designs. Meanwhile, progress continues on new vehicles for suborbital and orbital flights in the years ahead.
While SpaceX flew Starship on its sixth integrated test flight, the company also flew three…
In another busy week of launches, China launched three taikonauts to the Tiangong Space Station…
China launched the crewed Shenzhou-18 mission on April 24 at 12:58:57 UTC. The launch was…
China launched the crewed Shenzhou-17 mission to the Tiangong Space Station on Thursday, Oct. 26,…
The Chinese space program has resumed launches after going over a month without a single…
China launched its second space station module of the year aboard a Chang Zheng 5B…
China is gearing up for its next big leap in space exploration: the construction of…
The Chinese space station module Tiangong-1 completed a destructive uncontrolled re-entry on Sunday. The event…
The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 – and its crew of two taikonauts – has successfully docked with the Tiangong-2…
Following the successful launch of Tiangong-2 space module earlier in September, China is now gearing…
China took another step on its long march to a permanent orbital outpost with the…
China will make another big step in its manned space program with the launch of…
The three member crew of Shenzhou-10 docked with the Tiangong-1 space module at 05:11 UTC…
More than half way through their mission, the crew of Shenzhou-9 have accomplished another major…
The three person crew of Shenzhou-9 – including the first Chinese woman to fly in…
After becoming the third nation to master the human spaceflight, China has made its next…
This week, Japanese commercial company Space One will make a second attempt to launch its…
This week got off to a flying start when new science experiments and cargo were…
As China prepares to increase its launch cadence further, there are plans to expand the…
