Archive for the ‘China Spaceflight’ Category
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
On September 29, 2011 China successfully launched its first space station TianGong-1, written in Chinese as 天宫一号, which means heavenly palace 1. With this article I want to give a overview of the TianGong project and an outlook on what we can expect in the next months.
Technical Details
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Saturday, October 8th, 2011
I'm preparing the promised article about the Chinese space station, however I want to post this news about an Chinese launch to space with a Western satellite. On October the 7th the satellite Eutelsat W3C was launched by a Chinese Long March 3BE carrier rocket to a geostationary orbit. Eutelsat ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Video of the TianGong-1 launch by China Central Television. That's really impressive! I'll do a more complete writeup of the TianGong-1 mission in the next days. In case you want a more complete picture of the Chinese space program, check out my China spaceflight article.
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
A catchy title for a news story where details are pretty much in the dark. The news seems to be, that China has either started researching, or maybe agreed upon, or maybe implemented financing, or something else of a heavy lift rocket capable of sending humans to the moon. The ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
I have previously talked a lot about the Chinese space program, because I love looking at space stations as much as watching an emotional football match. I just stumbled at this outline of the Chinese manned spaceflight, which details the previous and future Chinese manned space program. It's from October ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
One of the hottest newcomers in the space race is China and this is a good moment to look at what China has achieved in space so far. In August 2008 I did a writeup of China's history in spaceflight, now it's time for an update, answering two key questions:
What ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Warning: Don't jump in Cheer and Happiness - this is only partly good news
Quite some months ago the Chinese send their first satellite called Chang'e to the moon to create a modern moon map. A lot of people had expectations towards this mission, but once again the result is causing ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
India's first space probe directed to the moon just started and at the same time India's space program wrote history. India is back on stage so to say. India has been a very forward nation in middle ages, lots of science came from that place at that time, then the ...
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