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Loading contentCNSA is the national space agency of the People's Republic of China, overseeing the country's civil space program including launch vehicles, lunar exploration, and crewed spaceflight.
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How CNSA (China National Space Administration) connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
Long March 5 is a Chinese heavy-lift launch vehicle that has launched missions including the Tianwen-1 Mars probe and modules of the Tiangong space station.
China's Chang'e program of lunar orbiters, landers, rovers, and sample-return missions, named for the lunar goddess.
A Chinese launch vehicle widely used for geostationary satellites and several Chang'e lunar missions.
China's oldest launch site and the home of its crewed Shenzhou spaceflights.
A Chinese launch site used mainly for polar and Sun-synchronous orbit missions.
A Chinese launch site used for geostationary satellites and several Chang'e lunar missions.
China's coastal, low-latitude launch site for the heavy-lift Long March 5 and crewed and lunar missions.
Tianwen-1 was China's first independent Mars mission, combining an orbiter, lander, and the Zhurong rover.
Chang'e 4 achieved the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon.
Chang'e 5 returned the first lunar samples since the 1970s.
China's first Mars rover, delivered by the Tianwen-1 mission to Utopia Planitia.
Yang Liwei — the first Chinese astronaut (taikonaut) in space, aboard Shenzhou 5.
Tiangong is China's modular space station, assembled from the Tianhe core module and the Wentian and Mengtian laboratory modules and continuously crewed since 2022.
Shenzhou is China's crewed spacecraft, derived from Soyuz heritage, which carries taikonauts to the Tiangong space station.
Shenzhou is China's crewed spaceflight program, which first sent a Chinese astronaut to orbit in 2003 and now crews the Tiangong station.
China's space-station program, which flew the Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 laboratories before assembling the modular Tiangong station.
Wang Yaping — a taikonaut who became the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk, during a Shenzhou mission to the Tiangong station.
China's principal launch-vehicle family, spanning small to heavy lift — from the early hypergolic Long March 2/3/4 to the modern cryogenic Long March 5/6/7/8.
China's only human-rated launch vehicle, which carries the Shenzhou spacecraft with crews to the Tiangong space station.
A modern kerosene/LOX medium-lift Long March that launches the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft to the Tiangong station.
A super heavy-lift launch vehicle in development for China's planned crewed lunar and deep-space missions.
China's global navigation satellite system, using a mix of medium-Earth, geostationary, and inclined geosynchronous orbits.
China's deep-space tracking network, operated for CNSA, with large antennas at Jiamusi (66 m) and Kashgar (35 m) in China and a station in Argentina. It supports China's lunar (Chang'e) and planetary (Tianwen) missions.
China's 66 m deep-space antenna in the northeast, a principal station of the Chinese Deep Space Network for lunar and planetary missions.
China's western deep-space station, with a cluster of 35 m antennas, part of the Chinese Deep Space Network.
China's principal mission-control centre in Beijing, which directs the country's human-spaceflight, lunar (Chang'e), and planetary (Tianwen) missions.
A national or multinational government body that funds, directs, and carries out a country's space program — from human spaceflight and robotic exploration to Earth observation and launch. NASA, ESA, JAXA, ISRO, Roscosmos, and CNSA are the largest.
The American Association of Variable Star Observers — for more than a century, the organisation that gathers variable-star observations from amateurs worldwide into a single database that professional astronomers draw on. The model for how amateur and professional astronomy work together.
The Agência Espacial Brasileira is the civilian agency responsible for Brazil's space programme.
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, which coordinates amateur observation of the Moon, the planets, comets, and asteroids — organising observing programmes and archiving the results so that amateur monitoring of the Solar System adds up to something lasting.
Arianespace is a European launch service provider that markets and operates launches of the Ariane family of rockets from the Guiana Space Centre.
The Agenzia Spaziale Italiana is Italy's national space agency, a significant contributor to ESA and to international planetary science missions.
A commercial operator of a low-Earth-orbit constellation for rapid-revisit Earth imaging.
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