The three-man, record-breaking, crew had spent a total of 192 days in orbit above the Earth aboard China's Tiangong space ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

Two years on, China ... spacecraft into an asteroid while another vehicle floats nearby and chronicles the collision. The current target is the near-Earth object 2015 XF261, a 30-metre-long ...

winning this race really matters for long-term space ambitions. China intends to use a more conventional rocket for its initial lunar missions, the Long March 10 vehicle. These initial forays will ...

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) revealed that the mission carried three Yaogan-43 (03) satellites, marking the third launch of the satellite series.

China's newly announced ... all featuring "long," meaning dragon in Chinese, in their nicknames. Fang said that if an aircraft needs to enter space orbit, it needs to take into account all the ...

northwest China, ready for launch to the Tiangong space station. The 203-foot-long (62 meters) rocket was transferred 0.93 miles (1.5 kilometers) by rail from the vertical integration building to ...

Swope agrees. “I think it's [China’s long-term space plan] a manifestation of China's interest and desire from a national prestige and honor standpoint to really show that it's a player on the ...

China has taken a significant step in space logistics and commercial space advancement with the introduction of low-cost cargo spacecraft, including a space cargo shuttle, tailored to meet the ...

BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has taken a significant step in space logistics and commercial space advancement with the introduction of low-cost cargo spacecraft, including a space cargo ...