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This week on TikTok: China on Israel and Palestine, young astronauts, and new conservation
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China launches its youngest-ever astronauts into space
Three new astronauts are heading to China’s Tiangong space station, which is about to get even bigger in the coming years.
This week on TikTok: A week for space and music diplomacy
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China to double the size of Tiangong space station
China just offered international partners the chance to participate in its lunar programs. And yesterday, it announced plans to expand Tiangong, its space station that was completed in 2022 and is currently home to three astronauts.
China invites the world to join its mission to explore the Moon
China is now accepting bids to join Chang’e-8 (CE-8), the country’s lunar exploration mission. It’s both space diplomacy and China’s latest push to become a leading space power at a time when countries are racing to land on the Moon.
This week on TikTok: China’s space ambitions and protests over a historical mosque’s renovations
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China’s first civilian in space, and maybe a man on the Moon
With three new astronauts on its space station and a promise to put people on the Moon by 2030, China took another step toward advancing its goals of becoming a major space power by 2045.
China builds up its space power in Antarctica
China plans to build two ground stations in an Antarctic research base to help track its growing number of satellites, but the move will likely raise concerns about spying and other military activities.
This week on TikTok: The new space race and Blizzard-NetEase fallout
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Can China and the U.S. collaborate in space exploration?
On our TikTok account: A brief history of U.S.-China collaboration in space.
China’s grand space ambitions
NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao discusses the history of Sino-American space collaboration, U.S. attitudes toward China’s space program, and China’s impressive accomplishments and ambitions for the final frontier.
China’s hurtling space junk again draws NASA’s ire
The debris from China’s recent rocket launch has fallen into a sea off the coast of the Philippines, sparking safety concerns and stoking geopolitical tensions over a growing amount of space junk.
China’s new space station is two thirds complete after launch of new lab
After a successful launch on Sunday, the second out of three major parts of China’s Tiangong space station is now in Earth’s orbit.
Three Chinese astronauts dock at China’s new space station for three-month stay
The third of 11 launches this year to build the Chinese Space Station (Tiangong) went off without a hitch today. A trio of Chinese astronauts will spend three months aboard the station to test systems and prepare for more construction to complete the station by the end of 2022.
China’s Mars rover landing closes another major gap with U.S. space program
The successful landing of the Zhurong rover on the Red Planet marks a major milestone in the China National Space Administration’s efforts to catch up to NASA.
China launches core module of new space station, to be completed by end of 2022
The first of 11 launches to construct the Chinese Space Station went ahead without a hitch today. If all goes according to plan, the CSS will be fully operational by the end of 2022.
Chinese capsule returns to Earth with Moon rocks
The Chang’e-5 probe has landed in Inner Mongolia with a cargo of lunar rocks and soil.
Chinese lunar lander reaches Moon, on mission to make China third nation to bring back rocks
The Chang’e-5 lunar lander touched down on the Moon today, and will spend two days collecting two kilograms of rocks before returning to Earth in mid-December. If it is successful, China will become the third nation to retrieve lunar samples.
New funding values Chinese private satellite company GalaxySpace at $1.2 billion
Communications satellites are a big business — investors have made a unicorn of a Beijing-based satellite manufacturing startup.
China launches final satellite for BeiDou, its GPS competitor
China today completed a decades-long project to construct an alternative satellite positioning system to the U.S.–controlled GPS.
