28 February 2022
Last December, China filed a note verbale to the UN claiming that two SpaceX Starlink satellites made close encounters to the China Space Station (CSS). Such events could easily be politicised considering the current geopolitical environment, which does not help solving the real problem in space. Chen Lan tries to analyse technical and management aspects of the event in order to sort things out and see what went wrong.
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There is one bright spot in the ongoing US-China space traffic brouhaha: Beijing has begun publishing for the first time the basic orbital positions of its crewed space station.

02 March 2022
Leonard David tries to shed some light on the space debris, expected to impact the Moon soon. Originally, the piece was thought to be part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory in 2015. However, the object is now tied to a Chinese Long March 3C rocket that blasted off in 2014. Tagging the out-of-control stage to China comes from Bill Gray, manager of Project Pluto that supplies astronomical software, both commercial and freeware, to amateur and professional astronomers.
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05 March 2022
This year, China will launch two 2 laboratory modules during the stay of the SZ-14 crewed mission. The SZ-15 crew will fly to the space station before the end of this year and join the SZ-14 crew. For a short while at the end of 2022, the Space Station will host 6 taikonauts.
The development of 13 significant technology breakthroughs in rocket development are the precondition for a Chinese human lunar landing around 2030. A new-generation manned rocket is one of them. It would also lay the foundation for follow-up lunar exploration and scientific investigation, deep-space exploration and the utilisation of space resources.
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05 March 2022
China has successfully sent six Yinhe 1 satellites built by Beijing-based GalaxySpace and a 16 kg Xingyuan commercial remote sensing satellite into a 500 km LEO. Each of the 6 GalaxySpace satellites weighs about 190 kg, and has a large transmission capacity of 40 gigabytes per second over multiple bands. They will work with GalaxySpace 1, launched in January 2020, to form an experimental communication network called the "Mini Spider Constellation" to verify broadband internet technologies.
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complementary details on nextspaceflight.com