The rocket’s failure dealt a blow to Japan’s efforts to cut the cost of accessing space and compete against Elon Musk's SpaceX

Beijing's significant advances in space in recent years have alarmed Washington and other Western nations

CASC lauded the “complete success” of the mission boosting China’s “space transportation technology from one-time use to repeated use”

The rocket's entire main-core stage has reached low orbit and is expected to tumble back toward Earth once atmospheric friction drags it downward, possibly on Sunday

It was the 32nd launch of 2022 and the intense activity is due to the company's race to build a constellation of Starlink broadband satellites

The unmanned Tianwen-1 reached Mars in February 2021 on the country's inaugural mission there. A robotic rover has since been deployed on the surface

The find - after Zhang was granted more than 17 hours on a sophisticated radio telescope in Guizhou - was announced in the official Ministry of Science and Technology newspaper

The Long March-2F rocket sent to China's Tiangong space station re-entered Earth's atmosphere and broke up, a Spanish astrophysics expert said

Countries with advanced technologies deploy satellites with surveillance network capabilities and early warning sensors to guard their assets

Beijing plans to launch a satellite in 2028 that will test wireless power transmission technology from space to the ground from an altitude of 400km

Three-man crew will continue work on China's under-construction space station, the seventh of 11 missions to complete the project by year-end.

Sony Space Communications Corp's devices will work between satellites in space and satellites communicating with ground stations