For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s heavy lift Long March 5B rocket successfully launched a new science module to orbit and docked it to their growing space station, Sunday morning, July 24, with a trio of astronauts serving aboard in another major sign of the country’s burgeoning space programs and capabilities. While the rocket launch and laboratory
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A pair of Chinese astronauts have successfully completed the first ever spacewalk in support of construction of China’s new space station on July 4 (Beijing time) and were aided by a robotic arm during an extravehicular activity (EVA) conducted outside the Tianhe core module. This counts as only the second ever EVA
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – In a major advance demonstrating the growing prowess of China’s technological and scientific progress China successfully launched a trio of astronauts on the country’s first human spaceflight mission since 2016 on the Shenzhou-12 capsule, Thursday, June 17- who soon rendezvoused and docked about six and a half hours later at the Tianhe
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Chinese space officials named the crew for the country’s next human spaceflight mission now targeting launch on the Shenzhou-12 capsule on Thursday, June 17 on the first crewed mission to their new space station Tiangong – orbiting in low Earth orbit since liftoff in late April. The three man crew was revealed
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China has rolled out the Long March 2F rocket to the launch pad as preparations move forward for the country’s next human spaceflight mission targeted for launch of a trio of astronauts to their new space station in low Earth Orbit later this month. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) Shenzhou 12 manned spaceship
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo ship launched Saturday, May 29 and docked successfully eight hours later on Sunday May 30 with the first module of the country’s new space station on a mission to deliver nearly seven tons of of supplies, equipment, science, spacesuits and propellant to the fledgling outpost circling in low Earth
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China has begun a fast-paced assembly schedule of the country’s new space station with the successful April 29 launch of the massive 22 ton core module named Tianhe to orbit on a Chinese Long March-5B rocket that kicks off a very ambitious series of launches aiming to complete the construction of