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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 8h

The second Long March 10 launch platform is taking shape at the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site in Hainan, China. The platform will support China’s crewed lunar missions under the country’s Moon exploration program.

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 8h

Assuming the Microsatellite Academy isn’t operating Qingzhou flights at a loss currently

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

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 · 29/09/2026

They’re probably mixing up real information with bogus datalike this blogpost (citing nothing but a launch announcement), which aligns with the satellite designation and time frame: www.universetoday.com/articles/a-c...

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A Chinese Satellite Tests Orbital Refuelling

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

Unless it slipped away from Shijian-21 at incredible speeds before returning unnoticed, it never approached the claimed Beidou satellite. Shijian-25 started to split from it at the end of 2025: www.china-in-space.com/p/china-appe...

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China Appears to Have Refueled a Geostationary Satellite in World-Leading Test

Shijian-25 and Shijian-21 are no longer docked following what may have been a successful satellite-to-satellite refueling test.

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

Yeah, CNSpace on Twitter has been getting worse for the past two months or so

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

This is a stack of 18 Qianfan satellites (in two sets of 9) for the Long March 8 Y6 mission in March 2025.

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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

You’d be surprised how little it takes to scare the U.S. MIC

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

That is an announcement of launch, not any activities in space. Beidou has no mention in it.

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

The root source of this claim is a Western blogger who cites nothing! www.universetoday.com/articles/a-c...

universetoday.com

A Chinese Satellite Tests Orbital Refuelling

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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

Americans continue to imagine a lunar boogeyman that doesn't exist; it will only get their own astronauts killed rushing against a non-participant in a so-called modern Moon race.

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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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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 16/09/2026

NASA released a bunch of 16 and 35mm film engineering footage of the Artemis II launch today. Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.

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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

From the other app: "The 2030/2031 timeline is for *a mission* carrying the TTI international payload, not for Chang'e-8. It's unclear if Chang'e-8 will fly and when, and what mission TTI and the JINNAH-1 Suparco rover that carries it, will fly on in 2030/2031. CMSEO is reorganising the program."

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

TTI is Terrain Testing Instrument of the Pakistani rover on Chang'e 8, mentioned days ago at the Tiandu forum. Folks at a recent global conference in France still say the mission is going ahead. TTI folks are quite a tertiary source, let's see what CMSA says.

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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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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

China’s Yaogan-50 (02) satellite appears to have fragmented in orbit, with at least 43 debris objects tracked so far. The cause remains unknown. It’s a legitimate space-debris concern, but breakups have affected U.S., Russian as well as Chinese spacecraft.

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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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