• Skip to content
  • Jump to main navigation and login

Nav view search

Navigation

Search

  • You are here:  
  • Home

This Site

  • Home
  • Newsletter
  • Chinese Space News
  • Contact Go-Taikonauts!
  • downloads
  • our partners
  • 8th CCAF - China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum
  • SEE Universe - South East Europe Space Conference 2020

FAST telescope identifies 114 pulsars

23 March 2020
China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, has identified 114 new pulsars since its trial operation began in September 2016. The gigantic telescope carried out nearly 1,000 hours of observation from 1 January to 23 March 2020, according to the FAST Operation and Development Center of the National Astronomical Observatories of China.
MORE...

Launch of a group of new remote sensing satellites

24 March 2020
China successfully sent a group of new remote sensing satellites into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on 24 March. Belonging to the Yaogan-30 family, this group of satellites was launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 11:43 h (Beijing Time). It will work as a constellation for electromagnetic environment detection and related technological tests.
MORE...
(correction: the headline stated initially "four" satellites. Most likely, it is the usual triplet of satellites.)

China's experimental manned spaceship undergoes tests

24 March 2020
A trial version of China's new-generation manned spaceship is being tested at the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's island province of Hainan, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The experimental spacecraft is scheduled to launch without crew in mid to late April on the maiden flight of the Long March-5B carrier rocket, a variant of the Long March-5, China's largest carrier rocket.
MORE...
short footage by CGTN showing the space craft undergoing an earlier impact testing damped by airbags

Chinese Manned Programs: is Soyuz as lonely as it seems?

30 March 2020
Denis Kalinin, science journalist wrote an article for West-East Space blog (https://westeastspace.com/) on the topic how the Soviet-Russian Soyuz space craft compares to the Chinese Shenzhou space capsules. He also tries to answer the question why Shenzhous are not servicing the ISS.
MORE...

Page 311 of 614

  • Start
  • Prev
  • 306
  • 307
  • 308
  • 309
  • 310
  • 311
  • 312
  • 313
  • 314
  • 315
  • Next
  • End

Powered by Joomla!®