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WATCH: Chinese space rocket accidentally takes off prematurely while testing and crashes into a hill within a minute
In an unexpected turn of events, Beijing-based aerospace company Space Pioneer conducted a static f…
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America's X-37B vs. China's Shenlong: Top space planes and their shadowy role in orbital war
The US X-37B and China's Shenlong are competing unmanned space planes whose covert missions are get…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Chinese scientists claim Star Wars-like laser submarines can blast US satellites
A powerful laser could threaten satellite networks, but there are many reasons to believe this sche…
Michael Peck
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A Chinese firm's answer to Elon Musk's Starlink just launched its first satellites for the thousands-strong network Beijing plans to build
The Thousand Sails Constellation is planned to bring 15,000 satellites into orbit, and is one of th…
Matthew Loh
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A Chinese firm's answer to SpaceX's Falcon 9 blew up in a giant fireball after it accidentally launched during a test
Tianbing Aerospace Technology said it was testing its rocket engine when the Tianlong-3 left the la…
Matthew Loh
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China beats SpaceX and Blue Origin to reach orbit with a methane-fueled rocket, edging ahead of the US in the space race
Landspace launched its Zhuque-2 rocket Tuesday. It's the first "methalox" rocket to reach orbit, be…
Marianne Guenot
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China takes on Elon Musk's Starlink with hundreds of low-orbit satellites
A Chinese company plans to launch the first in a network of 300 very-low-earth-orbit satellites in …
Polly Thompson
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Telescope spots the Chinese Long March 5B rocket that is currently in an unstable orbit around Earth
A sky gazer in Italy, who is a part of the Virtual Telescope Project, has spotted the huge Chinese …
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China is set to launch the next piece of its space station on Sunday — in a rocket that previously rained parts back onto Earth
The Long March 5B rocket has launched twice before, and both times its heavy body fell back to Eart…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Chinese rocket’s ‘massive’ splashdown in the Atlantic is biggest since 1991, says Harvard astrophysicist
China is no stranger to rockets falling out of the sky. In fact, its villages are used to raining r…
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The Pentagon has its eye on the out-of-control Chinese rocket that is expected to crash into Earth — but it’s not anything to lose sleep over
Before that happens, people can check for daily updates on the location of the out-of-control …
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Mystery wreckage in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines is probably fallen Chinese rocket parts, space-debris experts say
China's rocket booster fell to Earth uncontrolled, and new photos convinced space-debris experts th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An astronomer who said that a SpaceX rocket part will hit the moon now says the object most likely came from a Chinese spacecraft
Astronomer Bill Gray said he had evidence that the rocket part due to hit the moon in March is a Ch…
Kate Duffy
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Watch China launch 3 taikonauts to its new space station on Wednesday night - the country's first human spaceflight in 5 years
China launched the first piece of its new space station in April, and it's already sending astronau…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Debris from a giant Chinese rocket booster is set to plummet uncontrollably to Earth, raining parts across unknown locations this weekend
Experts say a 25-ton piece from a Chinese rocket booster will crash down to Earth this weekend. No …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Chinese cargo spacecraft docks with orbital station eight hours after blastoff
Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, is third and largest orbital station launched by China's increasing…
PTI
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Somewhere on Earth, it could rain rocket parts this weekend as a runaway Chinese spacecraft breaks up in the atmosphere
China's space-station rocket will most likely land in the ocean, but its path around Earth also tak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Chinese space center found a mysterious jamming device outside its base just weeks before a crewed rocket launch
The jammer can be bought online and has a maximum range of 32 feet, but can still disrupt a satelli…
Matthew Loh
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China's Mars spacecraft has photographed the entire red planet, state media says
China's space agency released sharp images, revealing Mars craters, a volcano, and a canyon that's …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The world can expect at least 2 repeats of the uncontrolled Chinese rocket crash, according to Europe's space agency
Upcoming missions could have a similar rain of metal debris to the one this weekend, which came dow…