@chinaspace.bsky.social
China's space program has made remarkable strides in recent years, positioning itself as a major player in space exploration. Including Space Station Construction and Manned Missions. As well as Robotic Missions to The Moon's Far Side and Mars! 🚀🚩👨🏼🚀🌕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🕊️
A China-developed 110-tonne-class liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine with a pintle injector completed a long-duration test on Thursday. The engine has now accumulated more than 1,000 seconds of test time and will power the upcoming reusable Lijian-2 rockets.
🚀 Liftoff at 22:33UTC March 12, Long March 2D Y95 launched ShiYan-30-03/04 from Xichang.
🚀 Liftoff at 19:48UTC on March 12, Long March 8A Y8 launched SatNet LEO Group 20 from Hainan.
Taikonauts for China's manned moon landing mission will be selected from those who have been to the Tiangong space station, Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program and China's first taikonaut, said in an interview this week.
The project will add 25 satellites from 2026–2028 to achieve daily coverage of low-latitude regions and a 30-minute emergency response capability. By about 2035, a 1,008-satellite commercial network aims to provide real-time sensing across these areas.
China’s Wuyang Constellation—its first low-latitude satellite network integrating remote sensing and communications—plans to launch three pioneer satellites by 2026. The first launch is scheduled this year to test key technologies for a system covering 35° north to south.
China’s up coming future Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return mission will feature a dedicated drone to help collect surface samples.
A look inside...
Qingzhou-1 Is readied for launch at Jiuquan - Qingzhou is a new-generation, low-cost cargo spacecraft developed by the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will see service as a un manned re supply craft for China's Tiangong space station.
It has the separate manned orbiter/command module, and lunar lander like Apollo. The mission will differ though by using two Long March 10 rockets to launch the Mengzhou crew spacecraft and the Lanyue lunar lander separately, which will connect in orbit at the Moon. before departing for the surface.
This is what #VV29 will look like in space 🚀
Smile, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, is a joint mission between @science.esa.int and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Europe’s Vega-C rocket can launch 2300 kg into space, like small scientific and Earth observation spacecraft.
Jun Huang of The University of Geosciences in Wuhan and colleagues analyzed orbital images and spacecraft data to study the moon’s Rimae Bode region. Their study, published March 9 in Nature Astronomy, finds the site offers both strong scientific value and safe conditions for a future crewed landing
Over the past year China has tested key hardware, from landing and launch simulations to crew spacecraft abort and rocket tests. A new study will focus on the landing site, offering insights into mission planning and its scientific potential.
🚩🚀🌕 China’s first moon astronauts could be landing in Rimae Bode - a “geological museum” on the lunar near side. Its mix of volcanic plains and ancient highlands could let astronauts sample deep-interior volcanic ash and debris from massive ancient impacts within one traversable area.
China's phase-4 lunar exploration program is progressing steadily, with its Chang'e-7 lunar probe scheduled for launch this year to search for water ice at the moon's south pole, said Sun Zezhou, a senior engineer at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
The Shenzhou-21 crew members aboard China's Tiangong space station have made significant strides in terms of space medical experiments and physical science research over the past week, while also maintaining the station's habitable environment.
The Shenzhou-21 crew members aboard China's Tiangong space station have made significant strides in terms of space medical experiments and physical science research over the past week, while also maintaining the station's habitable environment.
In future planetary exploration, China plans to launch the Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission, and Tianwen-4 to explore the Jupiter system, Sun added.
China's phase-4 lunar exploration program is progressing steadily, with its Chang'e-7 lunar probe scheduled for launch this year to search for water ice at the moon's south pole, said Sun Zezhou, a senior engineer at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
Published in the journal Nature Sensors, the study provides precise chemical data for future lunar landings, resource exploration, and deep-space mission planning.
The model, for the first time, integrates ground-truth information from the moon's far side into a global chemical composition map, offering new insights into the moon's asymmetry and the evolution of the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
Chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in mapping the moon's chemical composition by building an AI-based model using the measured data from the first sample collected on the moon's far side by the Chang'e-6 mission.
China’s Astronaut Research and Training Center is leading an application to build a ground-based research facility for extra-terrestrial survival. The project aims to tackle challenges of sustaining long-term human life beyond Earth.
China's Long March-8A Y8 carrier rocket has been successfully transported to its launch pad at Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China, scheduled for launch in the coming days.
The Long March-8A is a significantly improved model within the Long March-8 series. Featuring a payload capacity of 7 tonnes to a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit, it is specifically designed for high-density and rapid satellite deployment.
China's Long March-8A Y8 carrier rocket has been successfully transported to its launch pad at Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China, scheduled for launch in the coming days.
China’s Astronaut Research and Training Center is leading an application to build a ground-based research facility for extra-terrestrial survival. The project aims to tackle challenges of sustaining long-term human life beyond Earth.
