09 September 2020
China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth, deploys unknown object before deorbiting
... orbit (LEO), Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The reusable spaceship was launched last week on a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert. While little has so far...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
...the value chain, from launch and space exploration to applications in communications, navigation and Earth observation. MAXARA Long March-5 rocket at Wenchang launch site in China’s Hainan Province in May 2020. China plans more than 40 space launches...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... of government policy prioritisation and execution of consistent and long-term plans. China’s achievements are both significant and...look to overseas markets, in particular in emerging markets. Long March 2F Y15 with Shenzhou 15 atop rolling to the ...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... mission successfully launched early this morning, atop a Long March 5 rocket from the country’s Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island at 12:41 am EDT (04:40 GMT). The probe now begins a long seven-month journey through deep space to the...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch costs Rs 381 crores; other rockets-a Russian Proton Rs 455 crores; Japan’s H-11A, Chinese Long March, Arianespace Ariane-5 and the American Atlas 5 each cost Rs 6,692 crores. Against these a launch by ISRO’s PSLV...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... is woefully undefended. Features first, security second. A Tiantong-1 Mobile Communications Satellite was placed in orbit by China’s Long March 3B rocket in August 2016. What is notable in this image of a command and control dashboard from the event...
