2012-02-12 (China Military News cited from Reuters and by Jim Wolf) -- The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker's supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launched by Chinese rockets.
The State Department last month quietly warned ... READ MORE

2012-02-06 (China Military News cited from india.com) -- China today released a set of "world's highest resolution" lunar images taken by its second moon orbiter, Chang'e-2, as it braces to launch its next mission to land a rover to explore its surface.
China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for ... READ MORE

2012-02-03 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) -- China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 nautical miles.
The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Controlling Department in eastern Jiangsu province.
Since September 2011, Yuanwang III, Yuanwang V and ... READ MORE

2012-02-02 (China Military News cited from spiegel.de and by Christian Schwägerl) -- Europe's space industry, cash-strapped as a result of the debt crisis, wants to step up cooperation with China, which has an ambitious program and is building a moon-landing vehicle and capsules for manned missions. Such an alliance would likely ... READ MORE

2012-01-30 (China Military News cited from the-diplomat.com and by Jenny Lin) -- Since its inception in 1988, the Fengyun (FY) program has become an international symbol of China’s burgeoning ambitions in space. China’s weather satellite program began with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai’s 1970 approval of a Central Military Commission proposal ... READ MORE

2012-01-21 (China Military News cited from SPACE.com and by Leonard David) -- There is no doubt that China is on the move in space — including the country's own human spaceflight missions to Earth orbit — and at a time when NASA's own budget and big space decisions remain in the ... READ MORE

2012-01-14 (China Military News from China Military Power Mashup) -- World has known China's anti-satellite missile test in 2007. Besides the kinetic kill vehicles, however, China has been finding directed energy weapons, such as laser, to play a significant role in outer space competition since 1980s. But few opened information ... READ MORE

2012-01-13 (China Military News cited from SPACEFLIGHT NOW and by STEPHEN CLARK) -- A new Chinese weather satellite streaked into space Friday on top of a Long March 3A rocket, China's second flawless space launch this week.
The Fengyun 2F spacecraft lifted off at 0056 GMT Friday (7:56 p.m. EST Thursday) ... READ MORE

2012-01-09 (China Military News cited from ww4report.com) --The Chinese government's new white paper outlining its plans for the next five years in space mentions not only launching new orbiting laboratories, and manned mission to dock with its current orbiting lab, the Tiangong-1—but also actually placing a human being on the ... READ MORE