These advancements in China’s reusable rocket and lunar exploration programs come as NASA prepares to launch a crew of four astronauts on a loop around the far side of the Moon as soon as next month.
The China National Space Administration and Roscosmos have signed a formal agreement to jointly construct a permanent ...
China’s space program, aiming to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, conducted a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), yielding spectacular results, AzerNEWS ...
China tests crewed spacecraft abort and rocket recovery in major lunar milestone China took a major step forward in its lunar ...
China on Wednesday successfully conducted a low-altitude demonstration and verification flight test for its Long March-10 carrier rocket in the southern island province of Hainan, the China Manned ...
China has an orbital test for the Mengzhou spacecraft planned for later this year. There, it will launch on a Long March 10A with a single reusable first-stage booster, before docking with China's ...
NASA and China are targeting lunar south pole missions by 2030, advancing lunar exploration, data center development, and orbital computing capabilities, according to Space.com.
Water ice at the Moon's south pole has become one of the most closely watched targets in modern lunar science, and China's upcoming Chang'e 7 mission is designed to take a major step toward ...
NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with China's closed program.