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Anti-satellite weapon. Illustration: shutterstock

The US will stop testing anti-satellite weapons and demand that this become an international norm; China: developing systems for towing satellites

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US Vice President Kamala Harris announced this in a review before the Space Guard; more than 1,600 pieces are floating in space since the Russian test about six months ago, over 2,400 pieces are still floating 15 years after the Chinese test; Russia is setting conditions indirectly related to the war in Ukraine
The launch of the Tianwen-1 spacecraft to Mars. Photo: Chinese Space Agency

China launched a spacecraft to Mars, including a vehicle for field research of the planet's surface

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A new Chinese manned spacecraft prototype will join the Shenzhou spacecraft. Photo: Chinese Academy of Space Sciences CAST.

China is planning a new manned spacecraft

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The Chinese spacecraft Hushing is expected to be launched to Mars in July 2020. Image: China Space Agency

Chinese spacecraft to Mars

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The Chinese space station Tiangong 2 is on its way to a controlled crash. Photo: Chinese Space Agency, from CGTV broadcasts

The Chinese Tiangong 2 space station has crashed into the Pacific Ocean

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ZHUAI, CHINA, November 6, 2018: Models of future Long March series launchers at the 12th China Aerospace Exhibition. Photo: Shutterstock.com

The Chinese will develop a powerful launcher: Long March 9. First launches in 2030

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The CHANGE 4 spacecraft on the lunar surface. Figure: National Academy of Sciences of China

China has launched a spacecraft that will land and retrieve a rover on the far side of the moon

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The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is about to crash on Earth and Australia is on the crash course. Image: Cindy Zhi/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is on its way to crash tonight

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The heavy Falcon on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, November 28, 2017. The huge vehicle was briefly placed on the launch pad, as part of a test for the first static combustion test, only after which the company will give the green light for the maiden flight. Source: SpaceX.

The space missions of 2018: from the world's most powerful launcher to the successor to the Kepler space telescope

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China has released very few details about the space plane it is developing, not even a single simulation or diagram explaining its shape. The above illustration shows a simulation of the Rockwell X-30 space plane, which was canceled in 1993. Source: James Schultz, NASA.

China is developing a multipurpose space plane that will be launched for the first time in 2020

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The Long March 5 launcher takes off after the launch at the Wenchang Spaceport on Hainan Island in China, yesterday at 14:23 (Israel time). Source: Xinhua.

The launch of the Chinese Long March 5 missile failed

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The launch of the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft on October 17, 2016. Photo Xinhua/Li Gang

Shenzhou 11 is China's longest mission to date, a learning step on the way to a permanent presence in space

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The launch of China's previous manned spacecraft, Shenzhou 10 on a Long March 2F rocket, on June 11, 2013. Photo: Xinhua/Li Gang.

China will tomorrow launch Shenzhou 11 with two taikonauts to its new space station

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Launch of the Tiangong 2 space station from the Jiuquan Spaceport in the Gobi Desert in northwest China aboard the Long March 2F launcher. Source: China's official news agency Xinhua.

China has successfully launched the Tiangong 2 space station

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Concept of spaceships for multiple use. Figure: Indian Space Research Organization ISRO

India will launch an experimental reusable launcher in June * China has also begun developing a similar device that will be launched in 2020

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A model of the Chinese spacecraft to Mars as presented at the exhibition in 2015. Photo: (Credit: China Daily/Long Wei)

China will launch a combined rover, lander and rover mission to Mars in 2020

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A radio telescope located in China. From the broadcasts of the Chinese television CCTV. Screenshot

China is building the world's largest radio telescope

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Crew members of the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft enter the Tiangong-1 experimental space station on June 13, 2013

Towards a Chinese space station

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An illustration of a Baidu satellite. From Wikipedia

China has launched a plan to launch navigation satellites to rival GPS in 2020

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A spacesuit in a museum in Inner Mongolia, China. Photo: Katoosha / Shutterstock.com

A Chinese astronaut to the moon - when?

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A segment from a panoramic image taken by the Shanghai 3 lunar lander in which the Yuto robotic vehicle is seen in two different locations during its journey on the lunar soil in the area of ​​the landing site between December 15-18, 2013. Photo: CNSA/Chinanews/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo. This is a time-lapse panoramic shot showing China's lunar robotic vehicle Yuto traversing the lunar surface in the first week after descending on its six wheels to the lunar plains. The image was compiled from stills broadcast by the Chinese Hal agency on Chinese-language websites. On January 25, a little over a month after these photos were taken, a malfunction was discovered in Yoto. Image courtesy of the universe today website

The Chinese lunar rover Yuto has resumed contact but not all of its instruments are yet operational

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The lunar robotic vehicle Yuto, as photographed from the Chang'e 3 spacecraft. Photo: Chinese Space Agency

The Chinese lunar rover Shebak Haim

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A segment from a panoramic image taken by the Shanghai 3 lunar lander in which the Yuto robotic vehicle is seen in two different locations during its journey on the lunar soil in the area of ​​the landing site between December 15-18, 2013. Photo: CNSA/Chinanews/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo. This is a time-lapse panoramic shot showing China's lunar robotic vehicle Yuto traversing the lunar surface in the first week after descending on its six wheels to the lunar plains. The image was compiled from stills broadcast by the Chinese Hal agency on Chinese-language websites. On January 25, a little over a month after these photos were taken, a malfunction was discovered in Yoto. Image courtesy of the universe today website

Malfunction in the Chinese lunar rover

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China's first lunar rover separated from the Shanghai-3 lander on December 15, 2013. A screenshot from a video taken at the control center in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua, editing: Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kramer

The Chinese Yuto vehicle is already traveling with its six wheels on the lunar soil

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The launch of the Chinese spacecraft Shanghai 3 to the moon. Photo: Chinese news agency Xinhua

The first Chinese spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon was launched

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