Tianzhou 9 reentered earlier this week, Tianzhou 10 has been rolled out, it is carrying 6.3t of payload including 700kg of propellant, 220 individual items and a new spacesuit (Feitian Gen 2 #F), its mission will be lengthened to 12 months, which is probably going to be supplemented by cargo from the Mengzhou-1 and Qingzhou missions over the next year.
(Sadly CALT has completely whitewashed the livery of the CZ-7)
USA puts more sanctions on Chinese EO companies:
Galactic Energy inaugurates new Nanjing factory, they aim to produce 10 "Pallas 2" there (roughly comparable to CZ-12B), starting from the end of the year
Guodian Gaoke (Tianqi constellation) can begin commercial trail of its IoT Tianqi constellation (41 sats in orbit currently)
Aerospace Hongtu faces largest losses yet:
Launcher company cosmoleap raises 500M Yuan
Zhixing space (
. , they make sar sats) raised more than 100 million yuan
Adaspace (who is developping the 2,800 sats "three body computing constellation") and Meishan Liansheng Photovoltaic Technology (Leascend) signed an agreement for a 1 billion Yuan space solar panel production & R&D project
CAS Space prepares for sea launch of its Kinetica-1 rocket (previously only launched from Jiuquan), perhaps in the summer:
Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, hopes to have the Xichang-based Western commercial launch site project (西部商业航天) operational by 2030, IMO the geography is not favourable to RLVs...
AZspace's "Dier6+11" recoverable capsule (300kg downmass, 1.2m^3 volume) is undergoing environmental tests, a launch before the end of the year may be possible
Landspace aims for a second launch attempt of the Improved Zhuque-2E on the 13th morning from Jiuquan (last attempt was on March 19th)
