China's own deep space network will take shape in the next three to five years to support its exploration of the solar system, a top scientist said.
Chang'e-2, the lunar satellite that is set to be launched late Friday, might end up in one of three different places after it accomplishes its six-month mission, said the chief designer of Chang'e-2 satellite system.
China has finished construction of its first module of unmanned space station, Tiangong-1, and it is testing its electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, a military source said Tuesday.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a great scientific and expensive undertaking. Participating nations learn a lot but need to spend a lot, too.
The European Space Agency (ESA) supports China's inclusion in the International Space Station (ISS) partnership, the agency's director -general Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Monday.
China's space authorities added seven new members to its astronaut crew on Friday, with two women included for the first time.
China aims to snatch 20 percent of the world's space business by 2015, the president of the nation's sole satellite launch contractor said Thursday.
China has selected its second batch of astronauts, including five men and two women, the first time women have joined the country's space mission.
Seven Chinese astronauts, including, for the first time, two females, have been shortlisted for the country's ambitious space program that aims to build a manned station in orbit, Saturday's Hong Kong newspaper Wenweipo reported.
China plans to launch an unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, in 2011, which is expected to accomplish the country's first space docking and regarded as an essential step toward building a space station, an expert said Wednesday.
China is to put an unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, into space in 2011, a space expert said here Wednesday.