Here’s how it works. China's first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1, will arrive in orbit at the Red Planet on Feb. 10, 2021. Tianwen-1 consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover.

says the Tianwen-1 hasthag on Weibo generated 29,000 tweets and 150 million reads in the week prior to launch. Ye notes it's not unusual for China to be quiet before the mission, but also says ...

The ambitious Tianwen-1 mission to Mars launched in July 2020 and contains three spacecraft: an orbiter, which is now circling Mars, a lander and a rover. This is China's first mission to Mars ...

Here’s how it works. China has made it to Mars. The nation's first fully homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet today (Feb. 10), according to Chinese media ...

Tianwen-1 will take on those odds in May, when the orbiter is supposed to drop the mission's lander-rover combo down to the planet's surface. It will be a major test of China's aerospace engineering.

Tianwen-1’s successful orbit marks the latest success for China’s swiftly developing space program. In late 2020, the Chang’e-5 mission collected rocks from the seldom-explored far side of ...

With Tianwen-1, China is the first nation to attempt sending both an orbiter and a rover on its first homegrown Mars mission. According to the scientific team behind the mission, the probe will ...

HELSINKI — China has named its first independent interplanetary mission Tianwen-1, with the combined Mars orbiter and rover spacecraft apparently proceeding towards launch in July. The name and ...

China's Tianwen-2 will attempt to collect asteroid samples, return them to Earth, and then head out to explore a strange, ...

China has launched the ambitious Tianwen-2 mission aimed at studying the asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. The mission is set to ...