Shenzhou 14’s mission commander Chen Dong, and crew member Liu Yang began their first spacewalk after opening the airlock cabin of the Chinese Experiment Module 1 Wentian at 1026 GMT on 1 September. Fellow astronaut Cai Xuzhe provided support work from within...
Fundraising in the world of newspace has continued for companies in the USA and China during August. Xona Space Systems American newspace company Xona Space Systems (Xona) announced that it had completed a round of fundraising on 3 August. The company raised...
Details are sketchy but during late August, China mounted a launch of its suborbital/fractional orbital spaceplane from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert. According to Space News (Andrew Jones) the flight took place on 26 August. This would make the second...
Launching from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi, China, at 0301 GMT on 24 August, a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket has placed an Earth Observation satellite into LEO. The satellite is identified as Beijing 3B and is a follow-on unit to Beijing 3A – launched...
China conducted a Kuaizhou-1A launch at 0236 GMT on 23 August, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The payload, identified as Chuangxin-16 (CX-16), was successfully carried to LEO by the rocket. The satellite was reportedly built by Innovation Academy for...
The Chinese successfully launched a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) vehicle from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China at 1737 GMT on 19 August 2022. The vehicle was carrying the fourth Yaogan 35 triplet – the third such group launched this year – of military...
