A VTVL-1 experimental rocket ignites as it prepares to lift off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center... (VTVL)” test, where the rocket took off, reached a certain height and then landed back down ……

People watch the Long March 8 carrier rocket lift off in Wenchang, Hainan province, on Feb 27. SHA XIAOFENG / CHINA DAILYPeople watch the Long March 8 carrier rocket lift off in Wenchang, Hainan ……

Above: Rocket designer Shi Yaoxin works at a launch site. Bottom: Shi Yaoxin takes part... a new experience. In the Shenzhou XIV mission, he was a junior engineer involved in the final rocket ……

country by plane. How do astronauts (宇航员) go to space?Go, rocket!火箭飞向太空A rocket looks like a big tube (管子). It is an engine1. It takes astronauts and spacecraft (航天器) up into space, such as satellites2 ……

country by plane. How do astronauts (宇航员) go to space?Go, rocket!火箭飞向太空A rocket looks like a big tube (管子). It is an engine1. It takes astronauts and spacecraft (航天器) up into space, such as satellites2 ……

be needed to take the rocket away from the strong pull of gravity (重力). The plane’s first take-off.... It will be powered by six Boeing 747 engines. It will take off from a runway like a normal plane. But unlike ……

SpaceX’s Starship takes off from Texas, US on April 20.  AFP  Starship blew up... and most powerful rocket ever, exploded during its first test flight only minutes after it took off from ……

when a Long March 6A carrier rocket lifted off from Taiyuan in Shanxi province. It placed a group... the Yaogan 47 satellite into space. At 11:08 pm, a Long March 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang ……

when a Long March 6A carrier rocket lifted off from Taiyuan in Shanxi province. It placed a group... the Yaogan 47 satellite into space. At 11:08 pm, a Long March 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang ……

, one of the engineers who helped make the rocket.The launch (发射) also used a new technology called... (推力).  Now, with the new technology, rockets don’t just take off straight away. They stay still ……

. It will make maps moreaccurate(精确的). Usually a rocket takes only two or three satellites into space....Chinese satellite九颗卫星同时上太空A RUSSIANrocket(火箭) took off in the north of Russia last Thursday. It put ……

” was opened, announced China Manned Space Agency.“The 18-story-tall rocket blasted off (发射...) the overall design and technologies of the new rocket and marked the beginning of the third stage ……

VCGVCGUp, up and away and back again: LandSpace, a private rocket maker in China, tested a new... maker in China, tested a new rocket at Jiuquan Satellite Launch (发射) Center in Gansu province on Sept 11 ……

the booster rocket come back down to make a vertical landing less than 1.5 meters from where it took off. The rocket, named New Shepard, may very well be the first successful reusable rocket in space ……

targets of the mission are to *verify the design and performance of the new rocket, as well as test its...China launched its first heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March 5, on Nov 3 from the coastal ……