29 August 2018
New national launch record for China
With the launch of two Beidou navigation satellites, China has beaten its previous national record for the number of launches in a calendar year as the country ramps up its aerospace activities. The Beidou system is China’s equivalent to Europe’s ...
07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... the International Space Station, Glavkosmos and China are also currently aiming to make their GLONASS and BeiDou navigation satellite systems mutually compatible and have plans to install adjusting ground-based stations in their respected partners...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
..., towards launching more Chinese-built infrastructure and inviting foreign partners to use it. A model of the Beidou Navigation Satellite System. Spatial Information Corridor In September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech at Nazarbayev...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... also be used harmlessly to capture and tug away derelict satellites to graveyard orbits, as China demonstrated in early 2022 when Shijian 21 removed an old Beidou navigation satellite. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... Road Spatial Information Corridor, which is likely to remain in the coming years. In just over three decades China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) - named after the Chinese term for the Big Dipper constellation - has achieved a range...
