12 September 2019
Professor Yang Yuguang of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation talked with CGTN's Elaine Reyes about the latest achievements, and future prospects, of China's space programme. He summarised the status of Chang'e 4, including the known facts about the substance found by Yutu 2. Prof. Yuguang congratulated India on the accomplishments with Chandrayaan 2. At the end of the interview he briefly touched on the topic of Chinese private space efforts.
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17 June 2019
The Chinese space industry has a long and storied history with the Chinese government—specifically, it was almost entirely government-owned until 2014. As an indication of its state-ownership, almost all significant Chinese space companies are headquartered in Beijing, with most of them headquartered in the Western half of the city.
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WestEastSpace.com is a newly established content distribution platform. The published articles reflect on news and trends in the space industry, highlighting companies, new technologies, and people. A special focus is on the Asian market and Asian national space programmes.

17 June 2019
The space industry’s biggest fundraising story over the past 5 years has been the enormous increase in the number of constellations aiming to offer broadband services from Low Earth Orbit (LEO). While most of the funding has gone to western constellation companies, China has been eyeing these developments with some interest, and a handful of Chinese companies have emerged aiming to offer a similar constellation business model. Who are these Chinese LEO constellations?
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WestEastSpace.com is a newly established content distribution platform. The published articles reflect on news and trends in the space industry, highlighting companies, new technologies, and people. A special focus is on the Asian market and Asian national space programmes.

27 August 2019
October 2018, Shanghai Marvel Technology Company (also known as Marvel Tech) launched a prototype satellite that became the world’s first outer space gene bank. Marvel Tech branded the product DSPACE（DNA in Space） ,and saw a possible utilization of this technology to help colonize Mars. In short, Marvel Tech would send genes to Mars to ensure a genetically diversified civilization, and potentially simplified many of the current problems that would be faced by humans on long duration interplanetary travel.
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WestEastSpace.com is a newly established content distribution platform. The published articles reflect on news and trends in the space industry, highlighting companies, new technologies, and people. A special focus is on the Asian market and Asian national space programmes.