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China's looking to boost its space program, with a heavy rocket, new Compass navigation satellites, and a space debris monitoring center.
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Stratfor
China's recent launch test highlights the dual nature of most space technologies. Like the United States and Russia, China recognizes the importance of space to modern military warfare. In the nearly 10 years since it conducted its first successful anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) test, Beijing's interest in cultivating an array of ASAT capabilities has been well known. Now, some observers speculate
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Scientific American
The Chang’e 4 mission could have major effects on earthbound science and politics
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Stratfor
The accomplishment is a first for lunar exploration and moves China closer to matching the capabilities of the United States in space.
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The Wall Street Journal
China is poised to realize an ambitious mission to the far side of the moon, the most immediate of many planned milestones in its effort to challenge America’s half-century long supremacy in space.
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Stratfor
Chinese ambitions in low-Earth orbit and beyond have generated talk of a Space Race 2.0, but don't expect a repeat of the old Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
It could reliably supply energy 99 per cent of the time, at six-times the intensity of solar farms on earth, researcher says.
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Chinadaily
As planners for manned space missions move steadily toward the goal of placing Chinese astronauts on the moon, they have also started setting their sights on a much farther destination — Mars.
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Axios
China is pushing deeper into space, but its human spaceflight goals don't directly compete with the U.S.
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Sky News
The mission comes three years after China vowed to make a reusable spacecraft that could fly like a plane.
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Space
China is planning its Chang'e 7 moon mission, an ambitious suite of lunar spacecraft bound for the south pole.
