Category: space
China’s Manned Space Station
It’s only been 2 years since Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang completed China’s first space walk, now official word has come that a ‘relatively large’ space station will be operational and manned as early 2020. Construction on the orbiting platform is scheduled for around 2016 with the launch of a laboratory module, serving as base for [...]
China Heads For Mars
China has just finished drawing up plans for a Mars orbiter project. The plan, based on research conducted by the China Academy of Space Technology was made public yesterday at a forum on China’s space technology. The launch date for the Mars Orbiter is 2013 and is going to make use of technology developed for [...]
China Looks For Aliens From The South Pole
China is looking to build an observatory at the South Pole with the specific purposes of studying dark matter and searching for alien life. Construction should begin next year at Dome Argus, an area of the South Pole which stands 4100 meters above sea level making space observations more accurate.
China Launching Chang’e 2 Lunar Probe
With the national holiday fast approaching China is planning a number of spectacular ways to celebrate the week long vacation, but this has to be the most awesome of all. Instead of a firework show, as well as a high-tech laser fountain show and just over a week after the Moon Cake munching Mid Autumn [...]
3 Hour UFO Sighting Zhejiang
China seems to be going through a bit of a UFO frenzy at the moment. In July a still unidentified flying object buzzed an airport in Hangzhou, grounding all flights in the area, and now this UFO spotted in Zhejiang province. The UFO was visable for 3 hours over the skies of Haiyan County and [...]
SinoSat 6 Enters Orbit
China launched it’s 6th SinoSat satellite in to orbit this morning (Sunday) at 12:14 am. The new satellite, which will take the place of SinoSat 3 will live in a geostationary orbit at 35,700 kilometers above the equator for the next 15 years. It’s primary job will be relaaying TV and radio live broadcast signals [...]
China Launches Disaster Monitoring Satellite
China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shaanxi province successfully placed a remote sensing satellite in to orbit yesterday. The satellite known as “Yaogan X” will conduct scientific experiments, land surveys, estimate crops yields and help locate and predict natural disasters. Yaogan X joins Yaogan IX which was launched from the Jiuquan Center in March.
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