China commissioned a new-generation ship on Tuesday for tracking and controlling spacecraft. It will soon be used to service the Shenzhou XI manned mission, according to the China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Control Department.
India's space programme has grown to become a leader in the US$300 billion (S$406.3 billion) global space industry, earning envy for its reliable, low-cost launches and attracting a growing global clientele.
India is drawing a growing global clientele with its reliable, low-cost launches. Last week, an Indian-built rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), made headlines by launching 20 satellites successfully into space. Most were for foreign customers, including the US, Canada and Indonesia.
China on Saturday successfully blasted off its new generation carrier rocket Long March-7 from Wenchang space launch center in south China's Hainan province.
China on Saturday successfully blasted off its new generation carrier rocket Long March-7 from a new space launch center in Wenchang, Hainan province.
India successfully launched 20 satellites on a single rocket in a display of its technological capabilities as the South Asian country touts its low-cost space programme to lure customers frustrated by a global backlog.
After six decades of aerospace development, it is high time for China to embrace the new era of space economy, participants at a forum agreed Thursday.
When downloading new apps in Google Play, users in test group are told how to make room
China will put into space five new satellites within about five years as part of the country's fast-expanding space science program, a national science chief said on Wednesday.
The Romanian Academy on Monday celebrated the 35th anniversary of the first and the only flight to the outer space of a Romanian, namely cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu.
Tucked away on the top floor of a building in Chai Wan , WING is an intimate space for visual and performing artists to meet, stage workshops and put on small-scale performances
Russia launched a rocket from the newly built Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region in the early hours of Thursday, TASS news agency reported.
Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1a space rocket from the newly-built Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region in the early hours of Thursday, TASS news agency reported.
South Korea and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement on space cooperation to jointly explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
China is open to space cooperation with all nations including the United States, the heavyweights of China's space program said on Sunday, the anniversary of China's first satellite launch 46 years ago.
China's first female astronaut has claimed that women have unique advantages in working in space.
Revolutionary space exploration project unveiled by British physicist and tech tycoon Yuri Milner
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