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China has set a very ambitious launch schedule for 2018 announcing in early January it would try to conduct over 40 government and commercial launches.
Read More »What’s In Store for China’s Space Program in 2018
China’s Surging Military Space Program – Space Quarterly Archives
Continuing with our Summer Reading Series of articles or interviews that still have some relevance today, we present Craig Covault’s March 2013 article China’s Surging Military Space Program from Space Quarterly Magazine. Of note, China has completed eight launches to date this year with one failure and another satellite being placed in the incorrect orbit. Two communications satellites, one of which is for a military use, were successfully placed …
Read More »The New Race for the Moon – Space Quarterly Archives
Continuing with our Summer Reading Series of articles or interviews that still have some relevance today, we present Craig Covault’s June 2013 article The New Race for the Moon from Space Quarterly Magazine.
Read More »Opinion – Canada Must be Extremely Cautious in any Free Trade Deal with China
Between April 24-28 of this year China and Canada met in Ottawa for the second exploratory discussions on a possible free trade agreement. If Canada moves forward with negotiating a free trade agreement it must ensure that Canada’s domestic space sector is adequately protected, unlike the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) agreement with the European Union.
Read More »Shenzhou-8 and Tiangong-1 Successfully Rendezvous and Dock
For the first China has docked two of its spacecraft the Shenzhou-8 and Tiangong-1 space lab module.
Read More »China Launches Shenzhou-8
China has launched the Shenzhou-8 which will attempt to rendezvous and dock with the Tiangong-1 space station module. This is China’s first attempt at a docking and rendezvous between its spacecraft.
Read More »Canada as a Facilitator for US-China Space Relations
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) President Steve MacLean is in China to for exploratory meetings on future possible cooperation between the countries. Last week he visited the China National Space Administration (CNSA) where he met with CNSA Administrator Chen Qiufa. He also met Zheng Guoguang, Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration. After his visit to China MacLean will visit Russia to participate in the commemorative ceremony …
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