Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, completed an 8.5-hour extravehicular activity ...

On April 28th, China successfully put the core module of their Tianhe space station into orbit with the latest version of the Long March 5B heavy-lift booster. This rocket, designed for launching ...

China has launched a key module of a new permanent space station, the latest in Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme. The Tianhe module - which contains living quarters for crew ...

The crew successfully docked with the space station just over seven hours after ... on the Shenzhou-12 mission is to bring the 22.5-tonne Tianhe module into service. "I have a lot of expectations ...

The space station's core module, called Tianhe, reached orbit in April 2021. Two more modules — Wentian and Mengtian — arrived in July 2022 and November 2022, respectively, completing the T ...

The China National Space Administration launched the first module of its Tiangong space station in 2021, and finished it with its third module the following year. The space station is about one ...

On Tuesday, Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong completed the longest-ever spacewalk, spending nine hours and six minutes working on the exterior of the Tiangong space station, setting ...

China Shenzhou-19 crew aboard the orbiting Tiangong space station has carried out a variety of experiments since the ...

In-orbit construction of the space station began in April 2021, when China launched the first and central part of the outpost — the Tianhe core module. After that, several groups of astronauts ...

With the Shenzhou-12 launch and arrival of astronauts to the Tianhe core module ... From a Mars mission to the beginnings of a new space station, this year will be full of milestones for China.

China is set to embark on a series of ambitious space missions in 2025, including a new sample return mission, and the debut ...