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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 12h

Space challenges and issues need a place to be considered by global players, with academics and businesspeople arguing it should be in Hong Kong during an event at the International Astronautical Congress today Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/experts-sa...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 06/10/2026

The Haolong cargo spaceplane, set to serve the Tiangong Space Station, appears to be looking for a launch vehicle to bring it into orbit for the first time at quite a low cost Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/haolong-ca...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 05/10/2026

During the first day of the International Astronautical Congress in Türkiye, Chinese officials highlighted the nation's progress with human and lunar exploration, while encouraging global partners to join them Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/chinas-hum...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 04/10/2026

Another week has gone by for the Shenzhou-23 taikonauts aboard the Tiangong Space Station, who this week took part in microgravity research and celebrated China's National Day from orbit Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/shenzhou-2...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 03/10/2026

The second Qingzhou cargo spacecraft, which will bring supplies to Tiangong no earlier than January 2027 via a Kinetica-2, has recently passed into the 'development' phase of production to complete its assembly Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/qingzhou-m...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 02/10/2026

InterstellOr has continued to make progress on various systems for its Transcender-1 suborbital space tourism capsule, with new passengers signing on for the chance to fly in the future Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/interstell...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 01/10/2026

Twenty months on from the start of work, the multi-user Commercial Launch Pads 3 and 4 in Wenchang were completed this week, ready to support a first launch mission expected in this year's fourth quarter. Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/new-wencha...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 30/09/2026

Deep Blue Aerospace has raised almost 2 billion Yuan in recently concluded funding rounds, with that money set to support Nebula-1's first flight and Nebula-2 research, with disclosed progress being via engine development firings Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/deep-blue-...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 29/09/2026

STAR.VISION has recently unveiled its plans for its 1,080+ spacecraft Space.IDC Computing Constellation, which already has major partners signed on and up to 10 billion Yuan in strategic credit backing Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/starvision...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 28/09/2026

Following its acquisition of a majority stake, China Mobile is looking to change up the commercial Tianqi constellation, while GuoWang has had its user terminals shown off with some details disclosed at an exhibition Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/china-mobi...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 27/09/2026

Not SCMP reprinting this well debunked misinformation and admitting later in their own article that the satellites never came close 🙃

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 27/09/2026

It's been four months since the Shenzhou-23 crew boarded Tiangong, with this week seeing them continue their research supporting work and celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/mid-autumn...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 26/09/2026

The Arabsat-50 communication spacecraft is to be built upon China's small and flexible Dongfanghong-3E platform, with a launch planned from Xichang in the coming years, to serve Middle Eastern users Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/arabsat-50...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 25/09/2026

It's been over a year since iSpace launched one of its rockets, with its reusable Hyperbola-3 is still a ways off from a first launch, but the company is raising significant capital for its 'Series E' round Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/ispace-rai...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 24/09/2026

Three more Yaogan-40 electromagnetic environment detection spacecraft were placed into polar orbit by an extra-tall Long March 6A, launching from Taiyuan this morning Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/fourth-yao...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 23/09/2026

CALT returns after an over-month-long break with a Long March 8A mission delivering nine more GuoWang connectivity satellites into low Earth orbit, having departed Wenchang a few hours ago Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/guowang-ex...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 22/09/2026

Work on Wangyu, China's lunar spacesuit, is progressing smoothly ahead of being needed for Moon missions later this decade, with taikonauts to be trained for the trip in Xinjiang Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/wangyu-lun...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 21/09/2026

Space Epoch completed its 'B++' funding round last week, bringing total capital raised to around 2.3 billion Yuan, said to be enough to enable a first launch and landing attempt later this year Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/space-epoc...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 20/09/2026

In recent weeks aboard the Tiangong Space Station, Zhu Yangzhu, Li Jiaying, and Zhang Zhiyuan have hosted a 'Tiangong Classroom' with students from Hong Kong and Macao, while continuing their usual work of supporting scientific experiments Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/shenzhou-2...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 20/09/2026

Another Kinetica-1 flight has brought the start of another orbital computing constellation into space, and a communication-computing spacecraft demonstrator, alongside seven satellites designed to look back at Earth Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/new-orbita...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 19/09/2026

Four new PIESAT high-resolution synthetic aperture radar satellites have been placed into sun-synchronous orbit by a Long March 2D, launching from Taiyuan a few hours ago Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/commercial...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 18/09/2026

Over the past few months, hardware for Jinhua-1, China's first electric-run launch vehicle, has been steadily produced and tested by Spark Space Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/spark-spac...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 17/09/2026

SpaceTY's Tianyi-51 and Tianyi-52 C-band interferometric synthetic-aperture radar satellites have been placed into low Earth orbit by ExPace's Kuaizhou-11, flying from Jiuquan earlier this morning Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/expace-del...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 17/09/2026

GuoWang has surpassed 200 satellites deployed via another mission atop of the Long March 12, flying from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site a few hours ago Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/guowang-su...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 16/09/2026

Gravity-1 has flown from the sea for the fourth time, carrying eight operational Qianfan satellites and a testing high-throughput spacecraft to polar orbit on its latest outing! Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/sea-launch...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 15/09/2026

Qianfan has launched aboard a commercially developed launch vehicle for the first time, selecting LandSpace's Zhuque-2E to deliver a group of ten satellites into polar orbit Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/qianfan-re...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 14/09/2026

In New Delhi and Paris, Chinese officials discussed space policy and cooperation across several areas with international partners, while at home the Chang'e 8 lunar mission is having changes made Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/china-disc...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 13/09/2026

Orbital Chenguang is continuing to test its first orbital computing spacecraft over a month on from launch, while raising new undisclosed amounts of capital on Earth for its gigawatt plans up to 2035 Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/orbital-ch...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 12/09/2026

Five months ago, Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3 unsuccessfully performed its debut flight out of Jiuquan, lasting just over three minutes following a propellant leak and an inability to reach its desired separation altitude Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/debut-tian...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 11/09/2026

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is looking to improve space-based connectivity capabilities and capacities to better serve the nation, while exploring uses of orbital compute at an early stage Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/miit-looks...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 10/09/2026

Six new Yaogan remote sensing satellites have been added to low Earth orbit by a Long March 4B departing from Jiuquan, as part of the launch vehicle family's 666th launch mission and the first following CASC's quality-correcting effort Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/six-yaogan...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 09/09/2026

CASC's Party Group has found a ‘severe quality challenge’ to be present across various space projects and has now begun efforts to correct present and previous issues with quality Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/state-owne...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 08/09/2026

Scientific and technical work continues to progress on the Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission, set to launch in 2028 and possibly return the first samples of the red planet to Earth by 2031 Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/tianwen-3-...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 07/09/2026

As is the way CAS Space moves, the choice to pursue sea launches now is business-centered, so customer satellites can reach a wider variety of orbits atop of the proven Kinetica-1 Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/why-cas-sp...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 06/09/2026

Thirty CubeSats are to be sent to lunar space around 2030 as part of an international science constellation, led by China with Thailand, Serbia, Egypt, Senegal, and Indonesia participating Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/china-led-...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 05/09/2026

While both Wenchang launch sites continued to expand, for Moon and commercial rockets, the local space forum took place in late August to complete an international agreement and discuss reusable launch vehicles Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/wenchang-s...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 04/09/2026

Geespace's Future Mobility Constellation, backed by automaker Geely, has received regulatory approval to trial its space-based connectivity services for two years, while Qianfan's operator has raised almost 7 billion Yuan Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/geespace-r...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 03/09/2026

Last week, the U.S. Ambassador to China and a sitting Senator visited commercial satellite maker STAR.VISION to understand their remote sensing capabilities, part of a wider tour of Zhejiang province Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/us-ambassa...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 02/09/2026

In the wake of flooding between Nepal and Xizang, CNSA activated its emergency mechanisms for the first time, quickly gathering satellite imagery from state-owned firms, with commercial companies assisting not long after Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/space-sect...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 01/09/2026

A year on from its first flight hardware static fires, Pallas-1 has sailed into orbit during its debut 'test flight' out of Jiuquan a few hours ago, opening a path towards future booster recovery and reuse Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/pallas-1-s...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 31/08/2026

Chang'e 7 is not flying this year anymore, but bad weather can't cause a delay that long, so something else is amiss Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/change-7-m...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 30/08/2026

CAS Space's second Kinetica-2 launch vehicle has been sent to Jiuquan ahead of a Qianfan-carrying October launch, while the first sea-based Kinetica-1 is almost ready to fly sometime next month Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/second-kin...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 29/08/2026

Construction has begun on another spaceport in China, this time located within Shanghai where facilities to prepare sea launch missions are being built, targeting completion in March 2027 Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/shanghai-s...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 28/08/2026

Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan performed the Shenzhou-23 mission's first spacewalk earlier today, performing maintenance on one of the solar arrays and installing debris protection devices over the course of five hours Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/first-spac...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 27/08/2026

Over an insane distance of 400,000 kilometers, a two-way laser communications link between Earth and a Moon-orbiting spacecraft has been demonstrated by China's Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/china-demo...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 26/08/2026

CAS Space's 'Kinastra' upper-stage has cleared a series of performance tests in recent months, stated to allow it to enter service with a first mission scheduled for early 2027 Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/cas-spaces...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 25/08/2026

Long time no see Long March 6C, returning for its second mission a few hours ago to place an educational satellite into orbit for Thailand, alongside other similarly tasked spacecraft from Chinese operators, from Taiyuan Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/thai-educa...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 24/08/2026

It's been a fairly quiet week aboard the Tiangong Space Station, with Zhu Yangzhu, Li Jiaying, and Zhang Zhiyuan mostly tasked with maintaining their physical health and the orbiting labs' cleanliness Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/microbes-h...

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 23/08/2026

Not you too 😭 "This is just a reposting of the Xinhua news bulletin by the party-sanctioned space blog, not the space agencies themselves"

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 23/08/2026

The flight of Chang'e 7 to the lunar south pole has been delayed by one month due to poor weather occupying its launch window, which comes a few days a month and has to align with lighting conditions on the Moon Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/change-7-m...

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