ESPOO, Finland — China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering flight hardware development, targeting a late 2028 launch to seek out biosignatures on the Red Planet. The mission has ...

China's mission to retrieve samples from Mars will advance to the flight model development phase within this year, Liu Jizhong, chief designer of the Tianwen-3 mission, said on Thursday. Building on ...

China is preparing an ambitious mission to return samples from Mars back to Earth for the first time. The Tianwen-3 mission is scheduled to launch in 2028 and aims to search for evidence of ancient ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese program, a commercially driven SpaceX campaign, and a methodical NASA ...

China's Tianwen-3 mission chief designer Liu Jizhong, also a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Photo: VCG China's Tianwen-3 mission, which aims to carry out a Mars sample return, has ...