by David Todd | Oct 25, 2013 | China, commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
A Long March 4B launch vehicle launched the Shi Jian 16 research satellite from the Jiuquan launch site in China at 0250 GMT on 25 October. The exact nature of the spacecraft remains mysterous but is officially described by the Chinese Xinhua news agency as for...
by David Todd | Oct 22, 2013 | China, NASA, Seradata News
Following a backlash against its original decision to ban them, NASA has now decided to allow Chinese scientists into the 2nd Kepler Science Conference reporting on observations from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft being held at the NASA Ames Research Center in...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2013 | Apollo, China, exploration, History, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, Seradata News, Technology
It is at this time of year (well actually a little later than usual) when the Flightglobal/Ascend space team considers who is in the lead in the race to return astronauts to the Moon. Last year, we did an analysis of what a nation needed to put its astronauts on the...
by David Todd | Oct 8, 2013 | China, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, SLS, Technology
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is held every year in a different world city. As China has become the “third force” in manned spaceflight, it was logical and correct that Beijing, China’s capital city, should be selected as the venue...
by David Todd | Oct 4, 2013 | China, History, On a Lighter Note
While there are more important commercial space conferences in the world, the International Astronautical Congress, this year being held in Beijing, China, remains the the pre-eminant International space conference with all the major space agencies in attendance. Of...
by David Todd | Oct 4, 2013 | China, commercial launch services, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
China’s “space race” competitors have differing levels of progress in their own heavy lift launch vehicles programmes. Russian designers have yet to reveal their final configuration for a heavy lift launch vehicle but it is thought that it will have Lox/kerosene...
