China's first reusable spacecraft lands after 2-day flight
4 years, 3 months ago

China's first reusable spacecraft lands after 2-day flight

India Today  

China's first reusable spacecraft landed Sunday after two days in orbit, a possible step toward lower-cost space flight, the government announced. The secretive, military-run space program has released few details of the craft, which was launched Friday aboard a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's desert northwest. The flight "marks an important breakthrough in our country's research on reusable spacecraft" that promise a "more convenient and inexpensive way" to reach space, Xinhua said. Last year, it became the first country to land a robot rover on the moon's little-seen far side.

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Reusable experimental spacecraft returns
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Reusable experimental spacecraft returns

China Daily  

China's reusable experimental spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday morning after completing its 268-day orbital journey, according to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwestern desert. The test's success has indicated that China's reusable spacecraft technologies have matured, and they will provide a convenient and affordable commuting method between outer space and Earth, the center said in a …

Reusable experimental spacecraft returns
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Reusable experimental spacecraft returns

China Daily  

China's reusable experimental spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday morning after completing its 268-day orbital journey, according to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwestern desert. The test's success has indicated that China's reusable spacecraft technologies have matured, and they will provide a convenient and affordable commuting method between outer space and Earth, the center said in a …

China's reusable experimental spacecraft returns to Earth
3 months, 2 weeks ago

China's reusable experimental spacecraft returns to Earth

China Daily  

By ZHAO LEI | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-09-06 10:13 China's reusable experimental spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday morning after completing a 268-day orbital journey, according to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwestern desert. The test's success has indicated that China's reusable spacecraft technologies have matured, and they will provide a convenient and affordable commuting method between …

China launches reusable spacecraft into orbit for third time since 2020
1 year ago

China launches reusable spacecraft into orbit for third time since 2020

Live Mint  

China on Thursday successfully launched a reusable robotic spacecraft for the third time since 2020, in a series of secretive orbital test flights that it says are aimed at developing reusable technologies to reduce space mission costs. China's plans for a reusable spacecraft, dubbed by some as Shenlong, or "Divine Dragon" in Chinese, coincides with an equally secretive programme by …

China’s Tianwen-1 enters parking orbit before landing rover on Mars
3 years, 10 months ago

China’s Tianwen-1 enters parking orbit before landing rover on Mars

Live Mint  

Beijing: China says its Tianwen-1 spacecraft has entered a temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of landing a rover on the red planet in the coming months. The China National Space Administration said the spacecraft executed a maneuver to adjust its orbit early Wednesday morning Beijing time and will remain in the new orbit for about the next three …

Chinese Probe Enters Mars Orbit With Plan For May Landing
3 years, 10 months ago

Chinese Probe Enters Mars Orbit With Plan For May Landing

NPR  

Chinese Probe Enters Mars Orbit With Plan For May Landing Enlarge this image toggle caption China National Space Administration/AP China National Space Administration/AP China's space agency, fresh off a successful sample-return mission to the moon, announced Wednesday that an ambitious rover mission it launched in July had reached orbit around Mars. "China's Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered Martian orbit on …

China’s space ambitions: Robot on Mars, a human on the moon
4 years ago

China’s space ambitions: Robot on Mars, a human on the moon

Live Mint  

China's landing of its third probe on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that has a robot rover en route to Mars, is developing a reusable space plane and is planning to put humans back on the lunar surface. This week's landing is “a historic step in China's cooperation with the international community in the peaceful …

China to launch moon probe, seeking first lunar rock retrieval since 1970s
4 years, 1 month ago

China to launch moon probe, seeking first lunar rock retrieval since 1970s

Hindustan Times  

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s. Since the Soviet Union crash-landed the Luna 2 on the moon in 1959, the first human-made object to reach another celestial body, a handful of other …

China to launch Moon probe, seeking first lunar rock retrieval since 1970s
4 years, 1 month ago

China to launch Moon probe, seeking first lunar rock retrieval since 1970s

India Today  

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the Moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s. Since the Soviet Union crash-landed the Luna 2 on the moon in 1959, the first human-made object to reach another celestial body, a handful of other …

China quietly tests launch, recovery of reusable spacecraft tech in secretive two-day test flight
4 years, 3 months ago

China quietly tests launch, recovery of reusable spacecraft tech in secretive two-day test flight

Firstpost  

The description of the reusable spacecraft matches China’s plans of launching a similar spacecraft three years ago. The description of the reusable spacecraft given by China matches with the country’s plans of launching a similar spacecraft three years ago. Recap on 2020-063 launch: All data *consistent* with an experimental X-37-style spaceplane launch from Jiuquan at 0730 UTC Sep 4 and …

China launches Mars probe in space race with US
4 years, 5 months ago

China launches Mars probe in space race with US

Daily Mail  

China has successfully launched its Tianwen-1 spacecraft to Mars, which is due to arrive on the Red Planet next February after a seven-month, 34-million-mile voyage. The unmanned space probe took off aboard a Long March 5 Y-4 carrier rocket at 12:41pm from Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the southern island province of Hainan, China. China's largest carrier rocket, the Long …

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