China plans spaceport number 4
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Expanding space programmes need launch pads China is planning to build a fourth spaceport, or rocket launch pad, in line with its ever-expanding space exploration ambitions.â¦
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China plans to launch more than 100 satellites before 2020 to watch every corner of the country, state-run China Central Television quoted a government official as saying Tuesday.
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China said it would launch 15 rockets, 17 satellites and its third mission with astronauts in 2008. Huang Qiang, secretary-general of the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense, made the announcement at a news conference, the Xinhua news agency said.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24 -- China sent a satellite rocketing toward lunar orbit Wednesday evening, the latest step in an ambitious national program to shoot more astronauts into space, build a space station and eventually land Chinese astronauts on the moon.
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Â· Beijing to put astronaut on moon by 2020 Â· Military implications of mission concern US
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KOROLYOV (NEAR MOSCOW). Dec 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The main goal of the fourth space walk by astronauts from the Discovery shuttle, which is scheduled to take place on early December 19, is to fold a solar wing, NASA representative at Russian mission control Sergei Puzanov told Interfax-AVN.
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China's second manned space mission will take place in September 2005, state media Thursday quoted a high ranking space official as saying.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24 -- China launched a satellite rocketing toward lunar orbit Wednesday evening, the latest step in an ambitious national program to send more men into space, build a space station and eventually land Chinese astronauts on the moon.
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SPACE.com / A Russian rocket launched the world's fourth space tourist and two astronauts into orbit early Monday morning on a two-day trip bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
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China has chosen the site for a new satellite launching center, the country's fourth, on Hainan island in the South China Sea, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
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China said it would launch 15 rockets, 17 satellites and its third mission with astronauts in 2008.
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Russia hopes to launch three astronauts to the International Space Station next month, setting a new date after two postponements for technical reasons, space officials said on Wednesday. Technical difficulties, including problems with the docking system of the Soyuz craft, have twice delayed blast-off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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China, which put its first man in orbit last year, has built a national engineering and research center for small satellites, paving the way for large-scale production, state media said on Wednesday.
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China has announced that is to send a second manned mission to space in 2005, signaling a firm commitment to its emerging space programme.
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NASA may fly its next-generation space vehicle to the international space station through 2020, four years longer than the agency had originally planned to fly to the outpost, an official said Tuesday.
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By STEPHANIE HOO     JIUQUAN, China  -- Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity.    A police car with flashing lights led busloads of international journalists across northwestern China's vast Gobi Desert to the Jiuquan space center, past armored patrol vehicles and a sign, in English: "Foreigners are not allowed to enter without permission."    It was the first time China let foreigners enter, though officials forbade photographs of the command-and-control center with its rows of computer screens or the mammoth assembly hall where workers built the spacecraft that lifted China's first astronaut into orbit last October...
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BEIJING, Dec. 24 -- China&#39;s second manned space mission would take place in September 2005, the Beijing News quoted a high-ranking space official as saying Thursday.