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On the 9th of January at 15:03 pm, Beijing Time, a Long March 2C lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Einstein Probe to a 600-kilometer low Earth orbit. The Einstein Probe is believed to weigh 1,450 kilograms and be roughly the size of an

Jan 9, 2024 • 3 mins

It has been over five years since the Chang'e 4 lunar lander landed on the far side of the Moon. The lunar landing occurred at 02:26 am Coordinated Universal Time on the 3rd of January 2019 touching down the Von Kármán crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin.

Jan 5, 2024 • 3 mins

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Dec 28, 2023 • 7 mins

Disclaimer: This article was written on the 20th of December so some information may be outdated. Additional disclaimer: This article may take a while to load as where possible a relevant image is used. This article is intended as a general explainer of China's state-owned and operated Long

Dec 20, 2023 • 20 mins

On the 14th and 15th of December 2023, China launched a Long March 2F/G and a Long March 5 for two largely secretive missions. The Long March 2F/G launched from Launch Area 4 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northern China, on the 14th at 14:11

Dec 19, 2023 • 5 mins

After the third launch of LandSpace's Zhuque-2 rocket, the company revealed more information regarding its Zhuque-3 launch vehicle. Zhuque-3 is LandSpace's in-development partially re-usable medium to heavy lift launch vehicle. LandSpace plans for Zhuque-3 to burn liquid methane and liquid oxygen fuels in its engines, the

Dec 13, 2023 • 3 mins

On the 10th of December, a Long March 2D lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southern China. The payload for the launch was a Yaogan reconnaissance satellite heading to low Earth orbit. While a regular launch at first glance, this was the 500th launch of a Long

Dec 12, 2023 • 3 mins

On the 8th of December, Greenwich Mean Time, or the 9th of December, China Standard Time, LandSpace launched its Zhuque-2 rocket for the third time. This launch was the first time the rocket delivered a payload to orbit, and the first time a rocket burning liquid methane successfully placed payloads

Dec 11, 2023 • 3 mins

During the evening of the 9th of November, China launched a Long March 3B/E rocket carrying ChinaSat 6E to a geostationary transfer orbit from Launch Complex 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The ChinaSat 6E is a communications satellite that will reside at 115.5 degrees east in

Nov 9, 2023 • 2 mins

Disclaimer: This article contains the opinion of the writer and not Cosmic Nxws as a whole. Recently private spaceflight efforts in China have been ramping up from almost a dozen companies. This article will cover four companies I believe stand a good chance of becoming China's equivalent of

Nov 3, 2023 • 3 mins

After spending one-hundred and fifty-four days in space aboard China's Tiangong space station, the crew of Shenzhou 16 have safely returned to Earth. The Shenzhou 16 spacecraft performed a braking burn at 7:21 a.m. (Beijing time) am and the capsule touched down at 8:11 a.

Oct 31, 2023 • 2 mins

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 03:14 UTC carrying the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft and its crew of three to the Tiangong space station in low Earth orbit. The Shenzhou 17 spacecraft docked at the forward port of the Tianhe module at 09:

Oct 26, 2023 • 2 mins

On the 15th of October 2003, The People's Republic of China became the third country to successfully launch a person into Earth orbit using its own spacecraft and launch vehicles. The taikonaut, what China calls its astronauts, onboard the spacecraft for this mission was Yang Liwei, becoming the

Oct 17, 2023 • 3 mins