Category: space
China Launches First Mars Probe
Tweet China’s Yinghuo-1 satellite was launched earlier this morning from Baikonur cosmodrome along with the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe. Both probes are heading towards Mars, but once there have very different destinations. The Russian probes mission is to land on Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons, and collect rock and soil samples. Tweet
China Opens First Space Post Office!
Tweet China have been managing to achieve a couple of remarkable ‘firsts’ over the past few weeks. First was the successful remote docking of two unmanned space vehicles, the docking between the Shenzhou 8 spacecraft and the Tiantong 1 space lab module also marks China’s first steps toward an orbiting space platform. Tweet
China Planning Female Astronauts for 2012 Missions
Tweet China has big plans for space with the first module of their space station already in orbit above our head at this second. Currently China’s staff of Astronauts is made of an all male group of candidates, but that could all change in 2012 with flights Shenzhou-9 and 10. Tweet
China Launches First Module For Space Station
Tweet China are currently busy making history at this very moment in time as they launch Tiantong 1 the first piece of China’s first planned space laboratory! Tweet
China Unveils Plans For Space Station
Tweet Plans for China’s first space station were released yesterday along with a competition for the public to name the 60 tonne space outpost. Tweet
Space Tourism Coming To China
Tweet Chairman of Space Adventure, Eric Anderson, recently attended the 60th anniversary of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and while there voiced his plans for Chinese space tourism. Tweet
China Stumped By SpaceX’s Bargain Bucket Pricing
Tweet Officials from the Chinese space program have been voicing there doubts about SpaceX’s claims that the privately owned companies new heavy lift rocket will be able to send payloads to low earth orbit at the super low price of $1000 per pound. Tweet
China’s Homegrown GPS Will Generate 400 Billion By 2020
Tweet GPS is big business all over the globe, and here in China, home to the worlds fastest automobile market navigation is even a bigger business than in most economies. Currently 95% of all navigation in China is handled U.S GPS satellites, but this is American dominance of global positioning and guidance sound like it [...]
Space Age Capsule Hotel Opening In Shanghai
Tweet I remember when I was at high school and I first saw pictures of Japanese Capsule Hotels. At the time the idea of staying in a 2.2 meter long 1.1 meter wide box stacked upon other paying hotel goers seemed like an awesome idea, but unfortunately I’ve never had the chance. However, if the [...]
Top 10 Chinese UFO Sightings 2010
Tweet There have been 100‘s of sighting of Unidentified Flying Objects in Chinese airspace this year. Some were debunked my astrologers, but others remain a mystery. China Daily’s Top 10 UFO Sightings of 2010 after the jump. Tweet
China Launches 7th Navigation Satellite
Tweet China successfully launched the Beidou compass satellite in the early hours of this morning, marking both the 7th launch of a navigational satellite by China and the 136th flight for the country’s Long March series of rockets. The new satellite will be eventually be joined by a total of 30 satellites which will be [...]
China Building Space Theme Park At Real Spaceport
Tweet China is planning to generate interest in space sciences with a younger audience by opening a Space themed amusement park at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center. Tweet
135th Long March Rocket Launched
Tweet China launched its lateest Long March series rocket yesterday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. On board was the Zhongxing 20-A communications satellite, who has the very important role of improving TV and radio broadcasts signal strength! China has launched 135 Long March Series rockets since April 24th 1970, when Long [...]
China Aims For Maiden Space Dock and Space Station 2011
Tweet China’s plans for their own manned space station will kick off next year. Two unmanned space modules, the Tiangong-1 and the Shenzhou-8, will launch in 2011. These probes will be set up to dock with one another as an essential step toward building a space station. Once successfully docked the Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace, [...]
Chang’e 2 Sends Back Lunar Photos
Tweet Chang’e 2, China’s second unmanned lunar probe has been zipping about the moon’s surface taking an array of black and white three dimensional images. The images here were released on November 8th and show the moon’s Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows) one of the most stunning and widely viewed of all the moon’s features. [...]
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