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After two failures, a Chinese private company follows SpaceX to orbit
China’s private space industry hit a milestone yesterday: i-Space, a three-year-old Beijing-based startup, announced on WeChat (link in Chinese) that it had successfully launched a rocket into…
OneSpace becomes first private Chinese company to launch payload-carrying rocket
The OS-X Chongqing Liangjiang Star rocket, developed and built by the Beijing-based private firm OneSpace, blasted off on Thursday in northwest China…
China launches a high-resolution Earth-observation satellite
China launched a high-resolution Earth-observation satellite, Gaofen-5, at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province on Wednesday. The satellite will be used to monitor…
A rare glimpse into China’s astronaut training program
As China’s quest to conquer outer space proceeds with sky-high ambitions, a newly released video shows the country’s space explorers preparing for business. China plans…
Q&A with Leroy Chiao, first Asian-American and ethnic Chinese spacewalker and mission commander
From 1990 to 2005, Leroy Chiao took four flights into space as a NASA astronaut, spending hundreds of days off the Earth and dozens of hours strolling among the stars. Since then he has been taking on more terrestrial pursuits, including the launch of a business last year that he hopes can help build cultural bridges between China and the United States.