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.
China’s Chang’e 6 landed on and sampled the far side of the Moon while the…
China launched the crewed Shenzhou-18 mission on April 24 at 12:58:57 UTC. The launch was…
The Shenzhou-16 (SZ-16) spacecraft has come home after its crew completed a six-month stay aboard…
China launched the crewed Shenzhou-17 mission to the Tiangong Space Station on Thursday, Oct. 26,…
The week of Oct. 23 through Oct. 29 has been a big one for low-Earth…
On Oct. 15, 2003, a Chang Zheng 2F lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch…
China launched its crewed Shenzhou-16 mission to the Tiangong Space Station on Tuesday, May 30,…
China has launched the Shenzhou-15 mission to the Tiangong space station on Tuesday, Nov. 29,…
China scuessfully launched the Shenzhou 14 mission to their Tiangong space station on Sunday morning,…
The Chinese Shenzhou-13 spacecraft and its crew of three taikonauts ended their six-month mission with…
The Shenzhou-13 crew has conducted the second EVA of its mission, with taikonauts Zhai Zhigang…
On November 7, Chinese taikonauts Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping conducted the first spacewalk for…
After a successful launch to the new Chinese Space Station earlier this year and the…
The crew of Shenzhou-12 has conducted the second spacewalk of the mission, and the second…
Taikonauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo have successfully conducted the second ever Chinese Extravehicular Activity…
The first crewed mission to the new Chinese Space Station has successfully launched. Shenzhou-12, carrying…
China is gearing up for its next big leap in space exploration: the construction of…
China is taking another significant step on the road towards a permanent presence in space,…
The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 – and most importantly its crew of two taikonauts – have successfully returned…
