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Orange exhaust pushes a large Long March rocket from the pad at the coastal Wenchang spaceport, with white smoke billowing around lightning towers near the launch tower.

China to begin constructing its own megaconstellation later this year

China is preparing to launch its first satellites for a national low Earth orbit broadband megaconstellation to challenge SpaceX’s Starlink.

by Andrew Jones March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Liftoff of CAS Space's first Lijian-1 solid rocket from the desert spaceport of Jiuquan on July 27, 2022.

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China is developing a quantum communications satellite network

by Andrew Jones March 10, 2023March 10, 2023

China considering mission to Ceres and large dark matter space telescope

by Andrew Jones October 17, 2022February 22, 2023

Chinese megawatt-level space nuclear reactor passes review

by Andrew Jones August 31, 2022February 22, 2023

Liftoff of CAS Space's first Lijian-1 solid rocket from the desert spaceport of Jiuquan on July 27, 2022.

CAS Space puts six satellites in orbit with first orbital launch

by Andrew Jones July 27, 2022February 22, 2023

A crescent of the northern hemisphere of Mars taken by Tianwen-1's medium-resolution camera in March 2021.

Venus orbiter, lunar constellation and exoplanets telescopes among candidates as China selects new space science missions

by Andrew Jones July 1, 2022February 22, 2023

Liftoff of a Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket from a TEL at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, on June 22 (UTC), 2022.

Kuaizhou-1A returns to flight with test satellite launch

by Andrew Jones June 22, 2022February 22, 2023

China to launch Einstein Probe in 2023 to observe violent cosmic events

by Andrew Jones March 30, 2022February 22, 2023