The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in returning samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its Chang Zheng 3B/E (CZ-3B/E) rocket launched successfully from Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China on Wednesday, May 28, at 17:31 UTC.
This month has seen the launches of three different commercial Chinese rockets, and the return-to-flight…
China has become only the second nation to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars on…
The Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander, and rover mission to Mars from the People’s Republic of China…
The Tianwen-1 Orbiter, Lander, and Rover departed for Mars at 00:41 EDT (04:41 UTC) on…
This week, China launched a near-Earth asteroid sample return mission amongst several other missions. Meanwhile,…
The Shenzhou-19 crew recently conducted their third spacewalk this month as the China National Space…
Chinese spaceflight activities have been on pause in recent weeks due to the annual Spring…
As China prepares to increase its launch cadence further, there are plans to expand the…
Despite another relatively quiet month for launches, progress in the Chinese commercial space sector continues…
An international team of scientists has found the cause of the largest Martian seismic event,…
In the last few weeks, China has not only conducted several launches — of which…
The Chinese space program has resumed launches after going over a month without a single…
In what will probably be the last Chang Zheng launch before the Chinese new year,…
After the successful launch of three new Mars missions in the summer of 2020, Mars…
The year 2021 has been a historic one for China’s space program. The country achieved…
A Chinese Long March 4B rocket took a Haiyang oceanography satellite to orbit early Wednesday…
China launched a Chang Zheng 5B rocket with the Tianhe station core module to low…
After years of hard work and labor, NASA succeeded in the most complex landing ever…
Data from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has revealed the unsurprising —…
