Spaceflight 🚀Mar 1, 2024

Reuters 📆 February 29, 2024 #China 🇨🇳 aims to put first #Chinese 👨‍🚀 on the #moon 🌙 before 📆 2030 https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/china-aims-put-first-chinese-moon-before-2030-2024-02-29/

#Artemis #SLS

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#LandSpace’s 10km vertical take-off, vertical landing (#VTVL) test in #China’s 🇨🇳 Gobi Desert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNichfWXPoM

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3278193/landspaces-zhuque-3-reusable-rocket-test-breakthrough-china-space-race

#rocket #reusability

ZhuQue-3 10-kilometre VTVL test

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Sep 15, 2024
🇨🇳 #DeepBlue Aerospace aims to conduct a 100-kilometer-level vertical takeoff, vertical landing (#VTVL) test with a #Nebula1 first stage https://spacenews.com/deep-blue-aerospace-secures-strategic-funding-landmark-vtvl-rocket-test-soon/
Deep Blue Aerospace secures strategic funding, landmark VTVL rocket test soon

Deep Blue Aerospace secures strategic funding, landmark VTVL rocket test soon Chinese commercial rocket firm Deep Blue Aerospace announced new funding Tuesday, with a 100-kilometer-level launch and landing test scheduled for later this month.

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Sep 24, 2024

🇨🇳 #DeepBlue Aerospace #Nebula1 landing https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/a-chinese-rocket-narrowly-missed-a-landing-on-sunday-the-video-is-amazing

#RocketScience #reusability #RUD #China #SpaceRace

A Chinese rocket narrowly missed a landing on Sunday—the video is amazing

Deep Blue Aerospace is just one of several Chinese companies working on vertical landing.

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Oct 6, 2024
#DeepBlue Space will perform the next recovery test flight in 📆 November 2024 https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/chinese-private-firm-deep-blue-spaces-test-rocket-crashes-during-landing
Deep Blue Space test rocket crashes during landing - AeroTime

Chinese private firm Deep Blue Space’s test rocket crashed during landing, although most of the flight’s stages were completed successfully.

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Sep 30, 2024

An array of 24 radio #telescopes 🔭 will be built around #China’s 🇨🇳 (500m) #FAST to boost its resolution more than 30 times 📈 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3279995/chinas-fast-radio-telescope-set-major-upgrade-keep-its-place-world-leader

#Astronomy

‘Fierce international competition’ has China upgrading major radio telescope

An array of 24 radio telescopes will be built around China’s FAST to help boost the massive telescope’s resolution.

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Oct 25, 2024

🇫🇷 The inaugural flight of #FROG-H 🐸 is expected to take place in early 📆 2025. #CNES is also aiming to complete an initial test flight of the #Callisto #reusable rocket demonstrator in 📆 2025. The 13-metre-tall 📏 reusable rocket demonstrator will be launched from the #GuianaSpaceCentre https://europeanspaceflight.com/cnes-to-test-upgraded-frog-reusable-rocket-demonstrator-in-2025/

#rocket #reusability

CNES to Test Upgraded FROG Reusable Rocket Demonstrator in 2025

The French space agency CNES will begin flight tests of its upgraded FROG-H reusable rocket demonstrator in early 2025.

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Aug 15, 2025
#Landspace #Zhuque2 failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9_DBO1XNk
METHALOX MELTDOWN: Chinese private rocket firm Landspace suffers Zhuque-2 failure

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Aug 22, 2025
🇨🇳 #GuoWang, which aims to have 400 #satellites 🛰️ in orbit by 2027, has so far launched 72, while #Qianfan’s planned deployment of 648 by the end of this year remains stalled at 90 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3322530/did-zhuque-2e-launch-failure-deal-blow-chinas-guo-wang-satellite-project
Did Zhuque-2E launch failure deal a blow to China’s internet satellite projects?

Four satellites for state-backed SpaceX rival believed lost in LandSpace rocket ‘anomaly’ after lift-off, an expert says.

South China Morning Post