If I say to you "satellite-based internet provider", your first thought is probably Starlink. A subsidiary of Elon Musk's ...

About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...

US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a series of satellite training missions conducted by both countries in recent ...

However, 2031 remains a distant milestone. Meanwhile, the China-U.S. technological rivalry intensifies, and writing by Chinese experts about space is obsessed with the United States, seeing it ...

China is currently planning to build a gigantic solar power station in space. To get parts of the array out of our atmosphere, scientists are working on a reusable heavy lift rocket called the ...

HELSINKI — A Chinese space company is setting its sights on crewed orbital spaceflight, marking a new step in the expansion of China’s commercial space sector. Zhang Xiaomin, chairman of […] ...

Chinese scientists have announced details on the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST), a cutting-edge observatory that will rival the JWST.

China is actively developing its national space program, developing meteorological, telecommunications and navigation satellites, as well as technologies for lunar exploration. With government ...

This facility is the latest addition to China’s expanding and largely opaque overseas space programme. Beijing is forging space partnerships across Africa, strengthening its global surveillance ...

China has carried out its first in-orbit test of an inspection robot on board its Tiangong space station. The test, designed to check that the robot could be used effectively to maintain pipes and ...