Long March

China has completed the first launch of the Long March 6C rocket, a new variant of the Long March 6A rocket.

China has launched the Chang’e 6 lunar probe, on what it hopes will be the first mission to collect soil samples from the far side of the Moon.

China successfully sent the Shenzhou-18 crewed spacecraft into orbit April 25.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

A key element for the Chang’e-6 moon landing mission later this year, the Queqiao-2 communication relay satellite has been put on a lunar transfer trajectory.

China’s usually reliable Long March fleet suffered a launch hiccup when a Long March 2C failed to put two lunar navigation test satellites into orbit.

Geespace, the space arm of Chinese automobile giant Geely, launched 11 Geely-02 satellites into low Earth orbit on Feb. 3.