May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...on 24 April 1970, a date that has since become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s ...satellite capacity does leave Cambodia open to China’s whims. Ultimately, China’s more recent strategy of building and operating...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... bad temper and operate a space station with China. Shortly before China launched its first space station, Tianhe in April... if the effect of their sanctions is to drive Russia and China together. They have also had the knock-on effect of reducing ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...it has surpassed the US as the country with the most annual launches - in 2021 alone it launched 55 missions. Furthermore, China is conducting historic space exploration missions and is racing the US to land humans on the Moon and ultimately to build...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... of Beijing 2 was 100 percent leased by a Singapore based company. Beijing 3 [2021, 2022] satellites have been built by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation to acquire optical remote sensing satellite data and information products for...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...with the passage of ‘Document 60’ by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) The idea of commercial space in China effectively began in late 2014, with the passage of ‘Document 60’ by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... and the Shenzhou-XII and Shenzhou-XIII crewed spacecraft. The China Space Station has travelled stably in a near-circular orbit ...between the two spacecraft. In view of the foregoing, China wishes to request the Secretary-General of the United Nations...
