China Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:04:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png China Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Chinese satellite manufacturer MinoSpace raises $137 million https://spacenews.com/chinese-satellite-manufacturer-minospace-raises-137-million/ https://spacenews.com/chinese-satellite-manufacturer-minospace-raises-137-million/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:45:19 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=466013

Chinese commercial satellite maker MinoSpace has secured more than $137 million to further its design and production aspirations.

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Thomas Pesquet: While we were spacewalking on Wednesday the population of humans in space grew by 43%. We are seven on the International Space Station, and China launched three astronauts […]

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]]> 21371 Radar Imagery of Tiangong-1 https://spacenews.com/radar-imagery-of-tiangong-1/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:26:02 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=17520

In the next few days, an unoccupied Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to reenter the atmosphere following the end of its operational life. Most of the craft should burn […]

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]]> 460119 ESA and Chinese Astronauts Undergo Sea Survival Training https://spacenews.com/esa-and-chinese-astronauts-undergo-sea-survival-training/ Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:03:36 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=16858

ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Samantha Cristoforetti joined 16 Chinese astronauts in August 2017 for nine days of sea survival training off China’s coastal city of Yantai. The course was […]

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]]> 459408 Satellite-based Photon Entanglement Distributed Over 1,200 kilometers https://spacenews.com/satellite-based-photon-entanglement-distributed-over-1200-kilometers/ Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:19:49 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=16602

A team of Chinese scientists has realized the satellite-based distribution of entangled photon pairs over 1200 km. The photon pairs were demonstrated to be still entangled after travelling long distances […]

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]]> 459101 Orbital View of Tiangong 2 and Shenzhou 11 https://spacenews.com/orbital-view-of-tiangong-2-and-shenzhou-11/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:53:36 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=15724

CNSA has released imagery taken by a smallsat deployed the other day that shows Tiangong 2 and Shenzhou 11

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]]> 458160 SMOS Gets Help From Tibet https://spacenews.com/smos-gets-help-from-tibet/ Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:59:46 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=14495

Ground measurements are essential for making sure that satellites deliver accurate information about our changing world. Although the Tibetan Plateau may not seem the obvious place to take such readings, […]

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