Orbital Launch no. 125 of 2026 🇨🇳🚀18🛰️
Qianfan Group 10 | CASC | June 01 | 0840 UTC
China successfully launched the 10th(?) group of 18(?) Spacesail🛰️ (aka Qianfan) for its LEO internet megaconstellation on the maiden flight of its Long March 12B🚀 from Jiuquan SLC.
Although the Long March 12B is planned to be reusable, no recovery attempt was made today. It's a two-stage, kerosene/LOX rocket developed by CASC's commercial arm, designed for high-cadence LEO missions. It can lift ~12–20 tonnes to LEO.
Today (29th), the Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew returned to Earth aboard the Shenzhou-22 manned spacecraft. Just now, the reentry capsule of the Shenzhou-22 manned spacecraft successfully landed at the Dongfeng landing site. #China#ChinaMannedSpace#Shenzhou
Such cool photos. Five Feitian EVA suits in the airlock of Wentian module on board the Chinese space station. Impressive.
One of them, the oldest and most used, came back to Earth on board the uncrewed Shenzhou 20 back in January.
Our goal at Neuralink is to restore abilities that were thought to be lost forever due to injury, accident, or disease.
See how Audrey, who is paralyzed due to spinal cord injury, uses her brain-computer interface to play video games with her mind.
Shenzhou-23's Zhu Yangzhu, Li Jiaying, and Zhang Zhiyuan are heading to the Tiangong Space Station following a launch from the Jiuquan a short time ago
Details -> https://t.co/DyrgIhMo2N
On May 18, China's first prospective, multicenter clinical trial of an invasive brain-computer interface system with over 100 channels (the LEAP Study) was launched at Beijing Tiantan Hospital. #iBCI#BCI
High above our planet, a “cosmic smile” has taken shape. Riding aboard the Vega-C launch vehicle, the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) satellite, jointly developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA), took off from the space launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:52 am on Tuesday. https://t.co/DGFYID5pFS
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), a joint mission between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA), was successfully launched Tuesday aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Qianfan's ninth group to date has come within a week of its last, with today's launch of a Long March 8 carrying eighteen satellites into orbit for the connectivity constellation
Details -> https://t.co/PQ9mePDKrE
At 22:42 on May 17(UTC +8), the Long March 8 rocket successfully sent the 9th batch of networking satellites of the Qianfan Constellation into the predetermined orbit at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site.