... into the skies from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northwestern Gobi Desert on the back of a Long March 7 rocket. This new module builds on the earlier success of the first space station, Tiangong-1, and aside from...
.... Xinhua said the cause of the malfunction will be investigated further by Chinese engineers. The Long March 7A rocket is a new variant of China’s Long March 7 launcher, which differs from the base CZ-7 by the addition of a liquid hydrogen-liquid...
... relief for the space-faring nation after a number of recent failures, including a Long March 3B rocket in April and the doomed first launch of its Long March 7A rocket the month before, brought a temporary halt to launch activity. With the prototype...
... country plans to have up and running by 2022. The rocket will also launch Chang'e 5, a robotic sample-return Moon mission, scheduled for 2017. Other Long March rockets, the Long March 6 and Long March 7 have also made their debuts in 2015 and 2016...
... State Council of the People’s Republic of China published a brief status report. Elements of the new heavy-lift Long March 10 rocket are in production and being tested. An automated prototype of a three to six crew spacecraft called Mengzhou (‘Dream...
... companies wanting to launch small satellites, is likely to have a bright future. In 2019, China developed a version of the Long March CZ-11 rocket to launch from a sea-borne converted barge in the Yellow Sea, since emulated by the commercial Jielong...