Space Exploration
This tag is useful to those who are looking for content that is related to Space Exploration. From manned spaceflight, missions to celestial bodies, planetary research, and the broader realm of exploring beyond Earth's boundaries.
China's Chang'e 6 probe departed for the Moon's far side a little over fifty-three days ago, it would later land on the Moon at the start of June. Today, the Chang'e 6 probes re-entry capsule touched down at the landing site located
Jun 25, 2024 5 mins
A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center earlier today carrying the SVOM, or Space Variable Objects Monitor, spacecraft into a low Earth orbit. The launch is said to have occurred at 15:00 pm China Standard Time, or 07:00 am Universal Coordinated Time.
Jun 22, 2024 5 mins
China kicked off its Chang'e 6 lunar far-side sample return mission at 17:27 pm China Standard Time, or 09:27 am Universal Coordinated Time, May 3rd. The Long March 5 vehicle carrying the Chang'e 6 lifted off at the start of its launch window. Ascent
Jun 1, 2024 3 mins
A new Earth-observation mission has lifted off and into orbit. A Falcon 9 carrier rocket lifted the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force base. This payload, known as EarthCARE, is a European-Japanese cooperative mission meant to examine the role that clouds and aerosols
May 31, 2024 3 mins
Seemingly, since man first looked into the night, we have always yearned to explore the cosmos. But, despite hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, from our earliest ancestors to the present era, we have only recently begun to venture “far” away from our home. At the time of the
May 18, 2024 7 mins
China kicked off its Chang'e 6 lunar far-side sample return mission at 17:27 pm China Standard Time, or 09:27 am Universal Coordinated Time, from LC-101 at the Wenchang Space Launch Site, in the southern province of Hainan. This mission is part of the country's
May 3, 2024 7 mins
Chang'e (嫦娥) is a figure in Chinese mythology known as the goddess of the moon. A woman who stole immortality and fled to the moon, and when mankind touched down onto the lunar surface flight controller Ronald Evans told Michael Collins the story of Chang'e. Collins
May 2, 2024 10 mins
China has three major events happening in its space program at the of April and beginning of May. These three events are; the launch of Shenzhou-18 to the Tiangong Space Station, the return of the Shenzhou-17 crew to Earth, and the launch of the Chang'e 6 lunar far-side
Apr 19, 2024 3 mins
Both the United States of America and the People's Republic of China are planning to perform crewed missions to the Moon before the year 2030. The two countries have different ideas on how these missions should be performed in terms of launch plans and public-private partnerships. But how
Apr 17, 2024 22 mins
Learn about how radiation remains a critical component of how we address the future of spaceflight!
Apr 5, 2024 8 mins
Learn more about the amazing things going on China's Space Station!
Mar 29, 2024 5 mins
NASA is working towards a permanent presence on the moon as a jumping off point but What will farming look like on the moon?
Mar 28, 2024 5 mins
Learn more about Chinese space ambitions and their future goals for reusable spaceplanes!
Mar 27, 2024 5 mins