For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The Chinese space agency has released dramatic new videos showing the descent of the country’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 through the atmosphere during the landing the Red Planet in May as well as sounds and new images taken by its Mars rover Zhurong after driving down the landing platform and away to explore
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s Zhurong rover snapped a completely unique and stunning selfie of the six wheeled rover standing side by side with the lander platform that safely delivered it to the surface of the Red Planet onto the plains of the Utopia Planitia landing site – thus becoming the first ever Chinese spacecraft to
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s Zhurong rover rolled onto Mars, Saturday, May 22, starting its mobile 3 month long mission to explore the Red Planet after successfully becoming the first ever Chinese spacecraft to soft land on the 4th rock from the Sun a week earlier, on May 14 on the plains of Utopia Planitia. “China’s
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China has at last released the first pictures from their Zhurong Mars rover today, May 19, since it successfully soft landed the first ever Chinese spacecraft on the surface of the Red Planet last Friday, May 14 on the plains of Utopia Planitia – but had provided no significant post landing confirmatory
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is ready for touchdown now as the most powerful and sophisticated robot ever dispatched from Earth and at the most daring, difficult and scientifically rewarding landing site ever attempted by the agency on the surface of the Red Planet at Jezero crater – that simultaneously begins the first
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s first ever mission to reach Mars safely and successfully arrived in orbit around the Red Planet early this morning, Wednesday, Feb. 10, after a seven-month long interplanetary journey and marks the second leg of the arrival of an international fleet of spaceships dispatched from Earth that started less than 24 hours
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The Arab World’s history making first interplanetary mission to Mars – the United Arab Emirates Hope Probe – successfully achieved orbit today, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 10:57 a.m. ET (19:57 UAE time, 1557 GMT),” after a seven month journey bound for the Red Planet and designed to study the planets weather and climate
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A Chinese heavy lift Long March 5 rocket launched the ambitious Change’5 moon mission on 23 November who goal is to grab and return the first lunar soil and rock samples from Earths nearest neighbor in 4 decades. The Long March 5 carrier rocket lifted off at 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT)
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China has successfully launched its first fully indigenous mission to Mars – the extremely ambitious Tianwen-1 robotic mission designed to orbit, land and rove on the Red Planet – aimed at comprehensively investigating its climate, atmosphere and geology and search for signatures of water as well as snapping numerous images. China utilized its most