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Between 5:40 pm and 6:00 pm on December 15, Beijing time, many locals in Jinhua, China's Zhejiang Province posted online that they had witnessed a mysterious bright "fireball" flashing through the sky, and that meteorite parts were suspected to have fallen to the ground.
At thirty minutes past midnight in the early hours of Friday, China added another active component to its expanding line of satellites orbiting the earth with the successful launch of its Zhongxing-2E mission.
iSpace raised nearly 1.2 billion yuan ($172 million), setting a new record for a single round of funding in China's commercial space field.
At 14:01 Beijing time on March 5, 2022, China successfully launched six communication satellites produced by Galaxy Space and one commercial remote sensing satellite by Four Squares Technology.
Debris from a huge rocket that launched the core module of China’s first permanent space station into orbit last week is reportedly tumbling back to Earth and could make an uncontrolled re-entry through the atmosphere this weekend. The landing place is currently unknown.
It is reported that the entire process of the Chang'e-6 mission from launch to sample return will take approximately 53 days.
China's FAST Telescope detected the largest atomic gas system in the universe, and the achievement was subsequently published in the international academic journal Nature on October 19.
During the Spring Festival, related tests for Chang'e spacecraft to head for the moon were carried out at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in China to prepare for the launch in the first half of the year.
China has selected a new group of 18 reserve astronauts for its manned space program as it enters the mission preparation stage, China’s state media Xinhua said.
Private space launch firm LandSpace bags $172 million
Chinese rover Zhurong successfully landed on Mars on Saturday, making China the second country to succeed in the task.
Installation of equipment at a station for China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started on January 29 in Wenchang, a city in China's southern island province of Hainan. The site is scheduled to complete work by the end of this year.