China conducted the debut flight of its Long March 8A carrier rocket on Tuesday afternoon ... better servo devices and an optimized top structure with lighter weight, according to Song.

The heavy-lift Long March ... the rocket and the satellites it sent into orbit. An upper stage is a rocket booster that fits between the main launch vehicle and the main payload on top. China ...

A video released by state media China Central Television (CCTV) shows a human-rated rocket, the Long March 10, with the tell-tale, cross-shaped crew escape system on top, lifting off. Its core ...

This story has been changed to clarify that it is the world's largest single-segment solid rocket ... fuel engine on the Long March 5, the largest launch vehicle in China’s space programme ...

China’s state-owned main contractor for its space programmes. The liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene engine is designed for the next-generation carrier rocket Long March 9 (CZ-9), which is ...

CASC’s engineers have highlighted the suc... China has launched the Long March-12 rocket from its new $553 million Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site on Hainan Island. The rocket, capable of ...

"Though drop zones for Long March rocket stages are carefully calculated and launch notices and procedures put in places, events like the above are all too common, especially with China's space ...

Y6 carrier rocket carrying 18 low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, South China's Hainan province, March 12, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] China ...

China’s space industry is looking to catch up with SpaceX while also coming up with some impressive innovations of its own. The country’s main space contractor, the China Aerospace Science and ...

The debris from China's disintegrating Long March rocket entered the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday and reportedly fell into the Indian Ocean area close to the Maldives, the country's space agency ...