China’s commercial space sector has entered a new frontier. In January, a private Chinese aerospace company unveiled the test capsule of what is set to become the country’s first commercially developed crewed spacecraft, with plans for crewed flights by 2028 and bookings already taken from private space tourists. The project reflects a decisive shift in…
There are many challenges facing Hong Kong, and the world order seems to be reorganizing itself in rapid and unforeseen ways at blistering pace. It is disruptive, unprecedented in modern times and disturbing in equal measure. Areas of geopolitics that were thought stable have been uprooted. Friends and allies are increasingly seen as tradeable commodities…
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -China has begun preparations to send a Shenzhou spacecraft to its permanently inhabited space station ahead of schedule, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday. Shenzhou-22 is being sent without anyone on board to the Tiangong space station six months ahead of its planned launch in order to put China’s manned…
In a one-of-a-kind experiment, China’s latest space mission included four unusual passengers – two male and two female mice – joining a new crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space station in orbit. Selected from more than 300 candidates after 60 days of specialized training, the rodents are part of a biological experiment to…