Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

China looks to the Moon in 2013

Beijing, China - "Space programmes go on smoothly"

Chinese space success seems to be unstoppable. A new event is planned in 2013, and it will allegedly involve a human landing on the Moon. The launch is scheduled in the second half of 2013. It will be a real milestone for the country which, in the last 20 years, is following the heritage left by great superpowers such as America or Russia. It should be noted that Chinese space programmes began...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1144025
Rome, Italy, 07/31/2012 14:25
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

AerospaceAirbus-Nasa: collaboration to monitor climate change from space

GRACE-C contract for two spacecraft awarded

Airbus has been awarded a contract to design and build the GRACE-C twin spacecraft by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California). This new mission of American Space Agency and the German o... more

AerospaceSpace X: Crew 8 mission launched

Dragon will dock with the space station tomorrow

On Sunday, March 3 at 10:53 pm ET, Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s eighth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-8) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Spa... more

AerospaceERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

The satellite was launched almost 30 years ago, in 1995

At approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on Wednesday 21 February 2024, ESA’s ERS-2 satellite completed its atmospheric reentry over the North Pacific Ocean. No damage to property has been reported.ESA’s sec... more