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A Chinese Long March 2B rocket's booster was outfitted with a parachute for a launch. The system provides controlled landing capabilities for the rocket. Credit: China Central Television (CCTV) ...
Videos shared on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo show the Tianlong-3 (Sky Dragon-3), a two-stage kerosene-liquid rocket similar to SpaceX's Falcon 9 medium-lift launch vehicle, making its ...
In November, I visited China’s rocket base deep in the frozen Gobi Desert to witness the launch of three astronauts during the Shenzhou 15 mission to China’s new space station. Here’s what I ...
Chinese rocket dumps fuel over US to paint colossal white streak in the sky (photos) ... flying parabolic, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission.
A commercial Chinese firm named LandSpace launched its Zhuque-2 rocket late Tuesday and made history as the first company to send a methane-fueled launcher into orbit, beating a bevy of US ...
A Long March 2C rocket carrying a satellite launches from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 3 p.m. Video posted to Chinese social media showed the rocket's booster landing in a small village.
A Long March 5B rocket, carrying the final module of Tiangong space station, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province On October 31, 2022.
UPDATE: The Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket was spotted breaking up off the coast of Malaysia, and its re-entry on Saturday was confirmed by the US Space Force. A big Chinese rocket booster is ...
The Rocket Force, in charge of both conventional and nuclear missile power, “continued an aggressive modernization and production plan” this year, one official told Inside the Ring in a recent ...
Debris from a large Chinese rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean at 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, according to the U.S. Space Command.. In an update posted on the social ...
Rocket launch marks big step in building China’s lunar infrastructure Queqiao-2 will relay data between Earth and Chinese spacecraft on the far side of the Moon.
In November 2022, another Chinese Long March 6A rocket body exploded in the most densely populated region in low-Earth orbit: 800 km to 900 km above the surface, LeoLabs reported. That blast ...