22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
...tomorrow (23 July), China has rolled out its heaviest rocket to its Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island ready to liftoff with Tianwen-1, the country’s first Mars landing mission. Although Chinese officials ...
21 June 2016
China Looks for Space Station Collaboration through the U.N.
... the first Long March 7 rocket from its fourth spaceport, the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (Hainan Island). A Long March 5B rocket is expected to launch in September, and will carry the TianGong-2 orbiting laboratory module. The module will test...
06 May 2020
China launches prototype spacecraft on maiden flight of Long March 5B
... especially developed for China's manned space program, blasted off Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island in southern China – the country’s newest spacecraft launch site – at 6 pm (Beijing Time). Around eight minutes later the uncrewed...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... a Long March 5 rocket from the country’s Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island at 12:41 am EDT (04:40 GMT...safely," mission spokesperson Liu Tongjie was quoted as saying ahead of launch by the Reuters news agency. So far, only the US space...
