China space program

Integration between China and Russia’s satellite networks will have major implications for the United States.

With three astronauts set to spend six months on China’s space station, this is China’s most ambitious human space mission to date.

China is sending three astronauts to spend six months aboard its space station – which it built after being excluded from the ISS.

Russia-U.S. cooperation in space shows that the China exclusion policy is motivated less by security risks than by a U.S. fear of losing its leadership position.

Insights from Victoria Samson.

Insights from Lincoln Hines.

Three astronauts will blast off next week to spend three months on China’s new Tianhe space station.

Insights from Mark Hilborne.

It would be useful to have spacefaring powers agree upon and comply with a common set of principles.

In some ways, China’s space doctrine has grown similar to that of the United States.

The United States is the only other country to have successfully landed and operated a spacecraft on Mars.