All Rocketry Blogs

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Anomaly spoils China's string of successful launches (2009-08-31)

SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: August 31, 2009 Breaking a 13-year streak of successful launches, a Chinese Long March rocket failed to deliver an Indonesian communications satellite to its planned orbit ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: China's New Secret Space Plane! (2010-05-04)

Implied in a report published by China Aviation Journal, China has successfully launched its own space plane prototype, the news came out shortly after the US Air Force announced the successful test ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: China Launches Chang’E-2 to the Moon (2010-10-01)

"China successfully launched their second robotic mission, Chang’E-2, to the Moon. A Long March 3C rocket blasted off from Xichang launch center just before 1100 GMT on October 1. The satellite is ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Mixed Signals From China On The Successful Test Of An X-37B Type Space Plane. (2011-01-30)

Several news sources are reporting the successful test of a Chinese Space Plane. According to Chinese press reports China is also testing a similar spacecraft to the X-37B and is making ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: China Takes A Big Leap Forward In Manned Space Technology As There First Space Station Module Rolls To The Launch Pad (2011-09-26)

China’s human spaceflight program is gearing up to take a highly significant “Leap forward in Space” after their “Tiangong 1” prototype space station was rolled ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Qian Xuesen, America's cast-off scientist becomes China's father of rocketry (2011-12-06)

One of the most important contributors to technological advancement during the Mao era, revered father of Chinese rocketry Qian Xuesen (also known as Tsien Hsue-Shen), might never have built ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: China releases space plans through 2016 (2011-12-30)

“BEIJING (AP) —China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: China Launches Second Satellite Within One Week! (2012-01-13)

China successfully launched meteorological satellite Fengyun-II 07 at 8:56 a.m. Friday from its southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Capable of providing continuous meteorological ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Shenzhou-9 Launches Into Space With China’s First Woman Astronaut (2012-06-17)

AsianScientist (Jun. 16, 2012) – China broke into a celebratory mood on Saturday night at 4:09 p.m. (IST) with the successful launch of the Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-9 ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: China soft-lands a rover on the Moon and it roves (2013-12-14)

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High Power Rocketry: Long March 3A rocket crashes in China (2015-01-02)

      Journalists and observers on hand to capture the f lat spin and crash landing in Guizhou province.     [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: China launches heavy-lift Long March-5 (2016-11-04)

  Details on Long March 5 Height 57 m (187 ft) Diameter 5 m (16 ft) Mass 1,938,000 lb Stages 2 Capacity Payload to LEO 55,000 lb Payload to GTO 31,000 lb Payload to TLI 18,000 lb [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: China launches Tianzhou-1 (2017-04-20)

China’s 1st cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 blasts off aboard a Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket. The spacecraft will rendezvous with the space lab Tiangong-2. The docking will be the first addition ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Chang'e-4 Lunar Landing Footage (2019-01-11)

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