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The Shenzhou 20 mission will lift off aboard a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 5:17 a.m. EDT (0917 GMT; 5:17 p.m. Beijing time).
Chinese startup InfinAstro has secured early funding to enhance China's growing commercial on-orbit servicing capabilities.
A team of Chinese space engineers has revealed the behind-the-scenes struggles and rapid-response ingenuity that saved two lunar satellites stranded in Earth orbit after a launch anomaly, transforming a near-total loss into a landmark mission for deep space operations and intersatellite communications.
Space robotics company GITAI has completed a concept study for a next-generation robotic arm designed to support Japan’s ambitious lunar exploration goals.
China is setting its sights far beyond Earth orbit with a newly revealed long-term roadmap for deep space exploration centered on the search for extraterrestrial life and understanding planetary habitability.
China's ambitious Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has reached a significant milestone with the arrival of its spacecraft at Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province.
In a significant step forward for China’s evolving space ecosystem, the country is preparing to launch two innovative, low-cost cargo spacecraft to resupply the Tiangong space station later this year.
Nayuta Space has secured "tens of millions of yuan" in pre-A round funding; exclusively funded by Quanxin Investment.
Beijing-based launch company Cosmoleap, formally known as Beijing Dahang Transition Technology Co., Ltd., has announced that it has raised over 100 million yuan (more than $14 million USD) to support the development of its Yueqian reusable rocket and an advanced recovery system modeled after SpaceX's "chopstick" tower landing method.
China is gearing up for a crucial milestone in its lunar exploration program, with the first flight of the Long March 10A rocket scheduled for 2026. The debut of this rocket marks an essential step in China’s ambitious goal of sending astronauts to the moon by 2030.
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