From Long March rockets🚀 to Chang'e lunar projects🌕, from Tiangong space station 🛰️ to Tianwen-1 Mars mission, I have witnessed dozens of key space missions and programs in China over the past years. Those astonishing and breathtaking moments are always lingering in mind.
Congratulations.
#India
’s 1st test flight for
#Gaganyaan
mission was a success.
A single-stage liquid propulsion rocket lifted off at 10AM local time Saturday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
@isro
announced
#CrewEscapeSystem
performed as intended. (Credit:
#ISRO
)
Shenzhou 13 crew have decorated China's space station for Lunar New year celebrations. They will eat some dumplings and celebrate the new year with all Chinese people around the world tonight. Guess what kind of dumplings will they eat tonight?
Congratulations!With the help of the
#Queqiao2
relay satellite, the Chang’e-6 probe’s lander-ascender combination has succeeded in landing at the pre-designated landing zone on the
#far
side of the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin.
China recovered its
#first
reusable & returnable test satellite,
#Shijian19
, at the Dongfeng Landing Site in north China on Friday. All returnable
#payloads
on the satellite have also been recovered.
Click the video!
What can we expect for
#India
’s major space projects in the future? Are there any plans for crewed missions?
Mr. S. Somanath, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization has shared with us his insights in Baku, during the
@Iac2023
.
#IAC2023
#iafastro
@isro
#ChineseTaikonautsAskforTopicsforLecturefromSpaceStation
Three crew members aboard China's Tiangong space station have released a video, calling on people to suggest topics for the second lecture on science and space in the coming days.
A warm hug in space!
The
#Shenzhou16
crew opened the hatch at 19:34 BJT on Thursday, met with their colleagues — the
#Shenzhou17
crew at China Space Station.
The 6 taikonauts will live and work together for about 4 days to complete planned tasks & handover work.
(Photo:
#CMSA
)
A sudden failure during the static fire test of a Tianlong-3 first stage by Space Pioneer, which issued a statement saying structural failure at the connection between the rocket and test pad was the reason.
Tian Long 3 is a large liquid rocket which is as capable as Falcon 9.
The
#returner
of the Chang’e 6 probe landed at the designated landing site in
#Siziwang
Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 2:07 pm BJT on June 25th, 2024, bringing back world's
#first
samples collected from the
#moon
's far side.
Safely delivered!
The precious
#lunar
samples brought back by Chang‘e 6 mission have been handed over to the research teams at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.(Video:Wang Peng)
#ChangE6
#ChinaLunarExploration
China plans to launch its first space telescope Xuntian in 2023, to conduct wide space observation, focusing on the formation and evolution of cosmic structures, dark matter and dark energy, exoplanets and solar system according to CMSA.
Wanna name China's
#lunarspacesuit
?
Requirements: A Chinese name of no more than four characters, indicating a connection with spacesuit ‘
#Feitian
’ , and highlighting 'intelligent manufacturing in China.'
You can submit your idea to
zhengming-dyf
@cmse
.gov.cn by the end of Oct.
China launches
#Tianping3
satellite
Watch the blastoff of
#LongMarch6
!
Fueled by liquid propellant made of liquid oxygen and kerosene, it is China's first carrier rocket that uses fuel free of toxicity and pollution.
Wow check this high definition photo of China Space Station.
This is CSS looks like when it will be finished construction by the end of this year.
It consists of a core module and two experiment modules named Wentian and Mengtian.
"Wisdom, courage and perseverance are essential to space exploration, I hope more young space lovers will join us." China's female astronaut Wang Yaping said. She was appointed as the public benefit envoy for China Space.
China's
#Zhuque3
reusable rocket prototype has completed 10km-level
#VTVLtest
.
Zhuque-3 is a methane and liquid oxygen-powered reusable rocket developed by a Chinese private company
#LandSpace
. It is expected to be ready for maiden flight in 2025.
(Video: LandSpace)
Still remember the mini
#rover
installed on the
#lander
of Chang'e 6 probe?
The real image of Chang’e-6 probe’s lander and ascender was taken by the mini rover.
#ChangE6
Wow, the Chang’e-6 probe has completed a near-moon
#braking
operation! Now, it has successfully entered its circumlunar
#orbit
.
Next, with the help of
#Queqiao2
satellite, the combination of the lander and ascender will land on the far side of the moon.
#ChangE6
(Photo:CNSA)
Watch the breathtaking moment!
A new breakthrough in
#China
’s
#commercial
#space
development! The world's most powerful
#solid
-
#propellant
launch vehicle, the
#Gravity
-1, has successfully carried out its maiden flight from the sea.
(Video: Orienspace)
China's Tianwen-1 probe sends greetings from the Mars orbit on Chinese New Year's Eve with a selfie video taken by a camera mounted on the craft.
As of January 31, 2022, Tianwen-1 has been working in orbit for 557 days at a distance of about 3.5 million kilometers from Earth.
Welcome back to Earth, Chang'e 6. Can't wait to see the first ever lunar soil from the far side of moon. Scientists and engineers celebrate this historic moment. It's such a great pleasure to meet with Dr. Yu Dengyun, chief designer of China's fourth lunar exploration program.
Here is the video!
#Queqiao2
communication relay satellite, transported aboard the
#LongMarch8
Y3 carrier rocket, arrived at the launch pad in Wenchang Space Launch Center, Hainan Province on Sunday.
The satellite is set to be launched in the next few days.
The first batch of Chinese humanitarian aid to Ukraine has arrived in Chernivtsi On March 11th.
These aid include blankets, towels, tableware, buckets and other daily necessities.
5 million yuan worth of supplies from the China Red Cross will arrive in multiple batches.
A total
#thrust
of over 500 tons!China has carried out the
#largest
thrust and most complex
#liquid
engine’s
#ignition
test.
For the first time, a 130-ton pump rear swing liquid oxygen kerosene engine completed the four-engine parallel ignition test on Sunday.
(Photo: CASC)
🌞🌞🚀🚀What a sunny day here at the Wenchang spacecraft launch site. Looking forward to the exciting Chang'e 6 mission in the next few days. This will be the first ever lunar sample return mission from the far side of the moon.
How many Chang’e probes are now on the
#moon
?
Chang'e-1 impacted the moon
Chang'e-2 completed lunar mission & continued further into deep space
Chang'e-3 made a soft landing
Chang'e-4 landed on the far side
Chang'e-5 brought back lunar samples
Chang'e-6 will return later
Congratulations!
The
#ascender
of Chang’e 6 probe has docked with the orbiter-returner combination. The lunar
#samples
have been transferred to the re-entry capsule. The next is waiting in lunar orbit to return to the Earth.
(3D rendering photos:
#CNSA
)
China has launched 18 satellites of
#G60constellation
!
For the first time in China’s space history, thanks to the G60 constellation project, mass production of flat-panel satellites and multi-satellite launch in a single mission have been achieved.
Hear the roar of
#SmartDragon3
rocket!
A total of eight satellites were launched from waters near
#Haiyang
City, east China's Shandong Province, on Tuesday.
Chang’e-6 probe carries 4 international scientific payloads, including 3 installed on the
#lander
:
The
#DORN
(Detection of Outgassing Radon) from
@CNES
;
#NILS
(The Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface) from
@esa
; and a retroreflector from
#Italy
.
The Chinese "
#ArtificialSun
" , known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (
#EAST
), has achieved a steady-state high-confinement long-plasma operation for 403 seconds, breaking its own world record of 101 seconds in 2017.
Photo: Institute of Plasma Physics, ASIPP
At 7:38am BJT on June 4, Chang’e 6
#ascender
carrying lunar samples took off from the far side of the moon. After the 3,000-newton-thrust
#engine
kicked into action for about 6 minutes, the
#ascender
successfully entered the pre-set lunar orbit.
@elonmusk
@esa
@AstroSamantha
Congratulations! As of today (October 1st 2024),
#YeGuangfu
has become the
#first
🇨🇳Chinese astronaut to spend
#340days
in space.
He said he believes this record will soon be broken as the country’s manned space program is developing fast.
Chinese scientists have discovered the naturally formed few-layer
#graphene
in the Chang’e 5
#lunar
samples for the first time.
Published in the National Science Review, the latest research result came as the world is waiting for the return of Chang'e 6 probe.
(File photos: CFP)
Next: Landing on the
#Moon
.
#Mengzhou
Manned spacecraft,
#LanYue
lunar Lander and
#LongMarch
10 manned rocket are under designing and manufacturing, according to China Manned Space Agency. Chinese astronauts are expected to land on the moon before
#2030
.
I am so excited to see China's Mars mission off at the site.
China's Long March 5 carrier rocket along with its Mars probe has been moved to its launch pad on Friday morning. After around 7 months of flight, the probe is expected to reach the red planet around Februray 2021.
Stunning.
This is how China's
#Tiangong
Space Station looks like orbiting in space. The Shenzhou 16 crew took these pictures in October. China Manned Space Agency revealed these images at a press conference in Hong Kong SAR. (Photo: CMSA)
Next: Going to
#Mars
!
"China is likely to become the
#first
country to return samples from Mars."
Wu Weiren, Chief Designer of China’s
#Lunar
Exploration Program has expressed his expectation on the country's future deep space exploration.
#InternationalMoonDay
#July20
The development of
#LongMarch10
,
#Mengzhou
manned spacecraft,
#Lanyue
lander and spacesuits have been finished, according to Ji Qiming, assistant to director, China Manned Space Agency.
Ji also said the overall technical proposal for launching site & landing site is completed.
Confirmed! Chang'e 6 mission is scheduled to be launched on May 3rd, China National Space Administration just annoucned.
The
#LongMarch5
Y8 rocket will start to be filled with the propellant soon. It will send the Chang'e-6 spacecraft to Earth-moon transfer orbit.
Chang'e 6 probe‘s 53-day journey continues after performing the first near-moon braking procedure on Wednesday (May 8th).
What's next? Here's a short video showing what will take place before the Chang'e 6 probe lands on the far side of the moon.
#ChangE6
#Queqiao2
#Tianlong3
, as capable as Space X's Falcon 9, will be launched around mid-2024.
It can lift 17 tons of payload to
#LEO
or 14 tons to
#SSO
.
It‘s designed to meet increasing demand for launching satellite
#constellations
.
I talked to
#SpacePioneer
founder&CEO Kang Yonglai.
Aditya-L1 started generating the power.
The solar panels are deployed.
The first EarthBound firing to raise the orbit is scheduled for September 3, 2023, around 11:45 Hrs. IST
Today is China's Space Day, marking the launch of its first satellite "Dongfanghong" into space on April 24, 1970. As a reporter, I have witnessed so many space missions at launch centers. Salute to all astronauts, scientists, engineers, and other hidden figures behind missions.
The 8th
#LongMarch5
rocket &the Chang’e 6 probe have been transported to the launch pad at the
#Wenchang
Spacecraft Launch Site on Saturday morning.Engineers, scientists will conduct the final checks, fueling and other procedures.
Photo Credit:Zhang Gaoxiang, Li Yi, Tao Jiashu)
Chinese commercial space firm
#CASSpace
announced it will carry out maiden flight of a “
#SpaceTourism
Vehicle” in 2027 & plans to start the travel to the edge of space in 2028.
The vehicle is a combination of a reusable single-stage rocket & a tourist cabin.
(Photo:
#CASSpace
)
#Queqiao2
has completed near-moon
#braking
!
After about 112 hours flying toward the moon, the
#relay
satellite carried out a braking operation at a place about 440km away from the lunar surface on Monday. 19minutes later, it entered an elliptical frozen orbit around the moon.
Amazing!Congratulations on Gravity-1‘s success!
Developed by Chinese rocket startup
#OrienSpace
, Gravity-1 has the largest carrying capacity of any solid-propellant rocket in the world, capable of sending about
#6
.5tons of payload to low Earth orbit (
#LEO
).
With a 3.7m long robotic arm & 2 sampling devices, Chang‘e 6 probe
#scooped
& collected soil from different positions.
It also used a
#drilling
device, which can reach over 2m below the surface to retrieve samples from deeper layers.
@esa
@CNES
@iafastro
@IAC2024
@elonmusk
Congrats to Japanese
#SLIM
successful landing on the moon. While Solar panels seems not working well. Scientists are working on it.
Anyway this mission made Japan become the fifth country to land it's spacecraft on the moon after the US, the former Soviet Union, China, India.
Best wishes for Long March 5 🚀 & Chang'e 6 probe. You can feel the excitement and aspiration on site.
🌕Human's first attempt to collect samples from far side of the moon is about to be fulfilled.
For the 1st time since the building of Tiangong, China’s
#Tianzhou
cargo spacecraft will adopt a
#3hour
automated & fast rendezvous plan during
#Tianzhou7
mission.
The new docking plan can provide an efficient way to transport supplies, and reduce the strains on all systems.
Thousands of tourists watched the
#LongMarch7
rocket blasting off from the beautiful beach in
#Wenchang
city of Hainan province.
When will you come to Wenchang and watch a rocket launch?
Let me know.
#Tianzhou6
China's Chang'e-6 probe has just come back to Earth with the world’s
#first
lunar
#samples
collected from the far side of the moon.
The returner landed at the designated landing site in
#Siziwang
Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Tuesday.
Wanna name China's
#lunarspacesuit
?
China’s next-generation space suit for the lunar landing mission has been unveiled for the first time. The
#ChinaMannedSpaceEngineeringOffice
on Saturday launched an international campaign for naming its lunar space suit.
Wow! Stunning photos of the launch of Chang'e 6 lunar mission!
#Change6
#LongMarch5
(Photo: Wan Ke/ Liu Wei/ Zhang Gaoxiang/ Li Kang /Du Xinxin/Xiao Hailin/Chen Xiao/Qi Chuang)
At 6: 58p.m. (BJT) on May 28,
#Shenzhou18
crew closed the airlock hatch door, ending the 8.5-hour-long spacewalk, making a record of the
#longest
spacewalk time for Chinese astronauts. This is the 15th EVA conducted by Chinese taikonauts.
Look, Ice on
#Mars
.
The
#Tianwen1
orbiter captured these partial images of Mars' north polar region in Nov. 2021.
The 81.4 kilometer-wide Korolev crater is located in the upper right corner. And in the center of the ice-filled crater is an ice sheet that is 1.8 kilometers thick.
Before 2030, China plans to
#land
#taikonauts
on the moon.
Before 2040, a
#comprehensive
International Lunar Research Station will be built to carry out solar, terrestrial & lunar space environment detection and scientific experiments.
Wish you a great new week from China's
#Tiangong
space station.
Scientists plan to expand Tiangong space station into
#six
modules from the existing three in the future.
#ChinaSpaceStation
#Mengzhou
literally means dream boat in Chinese. It features the meaning of inheriting China’s space dream in the new field of lunar exploration program. It also indicates a close tie with
#Shenzhou
and
#Tianzhou
spacecraft.
#ChinaLunarExploration
Congratulations to Wang Yaping, who has become China's first female taikonaut working in space for 100 days.
She is now in the Shenzhou 13 mission, a six month mission started from Oct.23 2021, and she went to space from June 11 - June 26 in 2013 as a crew member of Shenzhou 10.
Congratulations! China has recovered its
#first
reusable, returnable test satellite!
#Shijian19satellite
touched down on
#Dongfeng
Landing Site at 10:39 am BJT on Friday. The ground recovery team later opened it and took out the mission payloads.
World's
#largest
solar telescope has begun the test operation in southwest China.
The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (
#DSRT
) consists of 313 six-meter-wide parabolic antennas, which are encircling a 100-meters-high calibration tower in the center.
(Photo Credit: CFP)
Congratulations!
#Shenzhou18
Taikonaut
#YeGuangfu
has become the first Chinese astronaut to stay in orbit for more than 300 days. Ye and his crew mates are now working in
#ChinaSpace
Station.
Previously, he spent 183 days in space during the
#Shenzhou13
mission.
Another re-usable rocket test from
#CASC
.
A 3.80m-diameter r-eusable verification rocket model completed a vertical takeoff &landing test at about 1 pm on June23 at
#Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center.
The maiden flight of China’s 4m-diameter re-usable rocket is expected in
#2025
.
Look at these amazing rocket flame photos!
China has successfully launched 18 satellites of
#G60constellation
! This marks the 530th flight mission of the
#LongMarch
carrier rocket series.
#LongMarch6A
(Courtesy: Zhou Quan)
Have you ever seen China’s
#Tiangong
space station flying over the moon in the daytime?
Just in the blink of an eye!A group of Chinese astrophotography enthusiasts captured the amazing moment in Wuhan city, Central China’s Hubei province last week.
(Video courtesy: Zhou Quan)
From start to finish...a journey lasting for 53 days!
This is human's first attempt to collect lunar samples from the mysterious far side of the moon.
A 4K documentary presented by CGTN and the News Center of the
#CNSA
, is coming soon!
#backtothefarside
#ChineseLunarExploration
Who’s gonna be the first
#foreign
astronaut to work in China's space station?
The China Manned Space Agency (
#CMSA
) said foreign astronauts will be invited to participate in the selection and training process, as international cooperation in crewed space exploration deepens.
A key was handed over to the commander of
#Shenzhou18
crew on Sunday, symbolizing the pivotal moment of an in-orbit crew rotation.
What new stories are they going to make during the 6-month period ? Let’s wait and see.
The installation of the main reflector for the antenna system of a 40meter-aperture
#radiotelescope
in
#Shigatse
has been completed.
It is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024, with very-long-baseline interferometry (
#VLBI
) observation capabilities in early 2025.