25 October 2018
Pakistan has decided in principle to send its astronauts on a space mission with assistance of China. The decision to this regard will be taken during the Federal Cabinet meeting today with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair. The Cabinet will also ratify the space mission proposal soon after discussion on the matter. In December last year, Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman had announced that Pakistan will be able to send astronauts into space with the collaboration of China in the next two years.
MORE...

23 October 2018
During the Fifth Manned Space Conference, which opened on 23 October in Xi'an, CMSA, China Manned Space Agency made some technical specifications of the core module of the country's future manned space station public.
The core module, Tianhe, or Harmony of Heavens, will have three parts: the connecting section, life-support and control section, and resources section. The module will be equipped with three docking hatches reserved for visiting manned or cargo spacecraft and two berthing locations used to connect with space laboratories. There will also be a hatch for astronauts' extravehicular activities.
MORE...

related:
Space station to be showcased at air show
23 October 2018
A mock-up module of China's future space station will debut at the weeklong Zhuhai Airshow next month in what Chinese observers dubbed a global invitation to hop aboard China's space research.
MORE...

25 October 2018
China sent a new marine satellite into orbit in the morning of 25 October to form a network with the subsequent HY-2C and HY-2D for maritime environmental monitoring. A Long March-4B rocket carrying the HY-2B satellite took off at 6:57 a.m. from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.
MORE...

27 October 2018
GoTaikonauts! wishes to congratulate Landspace Technology Corporation on its today’s attempt of reaching orbital space.

Today, at 16:00 h BJT (10:00 h Middle-European Summer Time) Landspace made its very own giant leap and launched LandSpace-1 (Zhuque-1). It carried Weilai 1 (Future 1), an educational satellite for CCTV, featuring in-orbit experiment and imaging capabilities and was built by MinoSpace Technology. This pilot flight, reaching more than 300 km height, is a big step for China, showing the success of its strategy of military-civil integration which enables commercial space start-ups like Landspace. Talented engineers and motivated teams were capable to come up with a high-performance product in an extremely short time. Respect!

See a video of the preparation of the rocket in the Landspace facilities.

See the launch video, as posted on Weibo.

GoTaikonauts! wishes to thank MinoSpace and Landspace for the opportunity to share this moment in history with the great teams at the launch site.

The MinoSpace Launch Campaign Team. credit: MinoSpace  For more photos, please, have a look on our Facebook page.