Lai Ka-ying’s selection as Hong Kong’s first astronaut has sparked a more than threefold surge in aerospace and satellite-design course inquiries at a learning centre, while industry leaders have called for sites to be refitted as immersive education facilities. Jeffrey Ho, CEO of Star Club Scientist Education, said that after the country announced the selection…
China launched its Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing’s ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030. The Long March 2-F rocket was scheduled to lift off at 11:08pm (1508 GMT) from the Jiuquan launch centre…
There was no joint statement out of Trump’s China trip today. But there might as well have been. In one of the most secretive spaces in Chinese politics, the walled compound where China’s top leaders live and work, the number of cameras and journalists granted access at the start of the bilateral tea this morning…
At this time of year, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po’s top priority is finalising the Hong Kong government’s budget for 2026-27, balancing requests for incentives and welfare against calls for a return to fiscal prudence. For decades, budget speeches have followed a familiar structure: a review of past performance, near- and medium-term forecasts, support measures…
The UK government is making provisions for an emergency alert due to concerns about an out-of-control Chinese rocket falling from space. Officials are keeping an eye on the debris from the Zhuque-3 rocket, which has a small chance of landing in Britain. Zhuque-3 was launched on 3 December 2025 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center…
Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over Cape Canaveral. The nation’s youth watched on TVs across the nation and from school playgrounds across Central Florida. Christa McAuliffe was to…
China news correspondent, Lianhe Zaobao More than 50 years after Apollo, the US races back to the moon amid growing fears that China could beat it. What was once a symbol of exploration is now a high-stakes arena of strategic rivalry. Lianhe Zaobao’s correspondent Yush Chau finds out more. When American astronauts stepped onto the…
A woman has pleaded guilty to falsely reporting that her astronaut ex-wife committed a crime while deployed to the International Space Station. Summer Heather Worden, 50, told law enforcement in July 2019 that her former spouse had illegally accessed her bank account earlier that year while she was in space, according to a news release…
Space debris may have delayed Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth – CBS News Watch CBS News A group of Chinese astronauts is back on Earth after being delayed by apparent space debris damage. CBS News’ Errol Barnett reports. Source link
Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the red planet’s once-thick atmosphere. The centerpiece of Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos’ space ambitions, the towering 321-foot-tall New Glenn…