China is racing to turn a long imagined science fiction concept into hardware: a gigawatt scale solar power plant in orbit ...

Since then the country has put a rover on Mars and built one of the two operational space stations orbiting Earth. Now its ...

China caps record year for orbital launches with Tianhui-7 and Shijian-29 technology test missions China reached 92 orbital ...

China is developing space-based military technology “breathtakingly fast”, the United States has warned. Gen Stephen Whiting, the top commander of the US Space Force (USSF), said China’s use of space ...

China files ITU paperwork for megaconstellations totaling nearly 200,000 satellites China has submitted two filings for huge ...

China’s space program spent 2025 pushing its launch cadence to new heights, testing reusable rockets at scale and managing the first in-orbit emergency for its astronauts. The result was a year that ...

The US and China both want to be the first to launch a powerful AI data center beyond Earth, but the latter has seemingly ...

Shijian-29A and Shijian-29B satellites to be used for new technology verification tests related to space target detection - ...

The 10th test of the SpaceX Starship has been launched and by all accounts was wildly successful in meeting its objectives. What do the results tell us about the likelihood that NASA and its ...

The push comes as Beijing seeks to build on major state-led achievements, including the construction of its own space station and a successful Mars rover mission, while addressing weaknesses in launch ...

Laser heating experiment in the microgravity conditions Photo: Courtesy of Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. China has ac ...

China conducted a total of 93 space launches in 2025, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year. On Dec 31, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, or CASC, the nation's ...