Andrew Jones
Journalist tracking China's space programme. Correspondent at @SpaceNews_Inc; @SPACEdotcom @exploreplanets @IEEESpectrum | @[email protected]
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1 week ago |
space.com | Andrew Jones
China is gearing up to launch its latest astronaut crew into orbit. A Long March 2F rocket, topped with the Shenzhou 20 crew spacecraft, was rolled out to its launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday (April 16), according to Chinese state media. The 203-foot-long (62 meters) rocket was transferred vertically by rail, taking it 0.93 miles (1.5 kilometers) from the integration building to the pad, over the course of around two hours.
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1 week ago |
spacenews.com | Andrew Jones
HELSINKI — A team behind the rescue of a pair of lunar satellites left stranded by a launch anomaly have revealed the challenges they faced in salvaging the mission. China launched the DRO-A and DRO-B spacecraft from Xichang spaceport March 13, 2024, intending to send the pair, totalling 581 kilograms, into distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the moon.
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1 week ago |
copernical.com | Andrew Jones
A team behind the rescue of two lunar satellites left stranded by a launch anomaly have revealed the challenges they faced in salvaging the mission.
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1 week ago |
space.com | Andrew Jones
The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode" while journeying through deep space. Hayabusa2 successfully delivered pieces of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December 2020, marking a triumph for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and for scientists waiting to study samples from a piece of the primordial solar system.
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1 week ago |
space.com | Andrew Jones
Germany's armed forces are planning to build their own constellation of satellites, to avoid becoming reliant on SpaceX's Starlink or other orbiting communications networks. Germany's military, or Bundeswehr, is looking to build at least one constellation of hundreds of satellites to provide communications services and possibly other applications, including remote sensing, according to a report from the German media outlet Handelsblatt.
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AZSpace test team have arrived in Liangxi to get DEAR-4 (B300-L02), consisting of a service module and a payload module, ready for launch in July. https://t.co/lIy3BK8lJ6 https://t.co/iUldo3lSoS
Cargo spacecraft being developed by Chinese commercial company Azspace. https://t.co/EczbVm2r6b
Vaiśravaṇa, King of the North and god of warfare, joins the gang (TJS-15 & 16) following a Long March 3B launch of TJS-17 from Xichang at 1647 UTC today. King of the South yet to come. https://t.co/ze0H413aG0 https://t.co/GjvjFZO5cY
Mission patches for TJS-15 and TJS-16 satellites, depicting two of the Four Heavenly Kings. These are four Buddhist gods, with each watching over one cardinal direction of the world. More to come, it seems. https://t.co/NyNfVWr3Vo
RT @SpaceNews_Inc: China to seek out life in the solar system as NASA faces cuts, commercial players expand ambitions https://t.co/q6xeu7eS…
