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Behind Chang'e‑5’s Success: The Homegrown Technologies That Brought Lunar Soil Back to China
Chang'e‑5’s successful lunar sample return owed as much to specialised, domestically produced components as to mission planning. Radars, SAW filters, crystal oscillators, a microwave rendezvous radar and powered exoskeletons supplied by CASIC’s Second Academy were crucial to launch tracking, signal integrity, timing stability, orbital docking and capsule recovery.
China’s Commercial Space Push Accelerates: Private Crew Capsule Test and State Giants Recommit to Reusable Rockets
On January 18, private firm Interstellor announced a successful full-scale test of a crewed-capsule landing-buffer system, a first for China’s commercial space sector. The same week, state-owned CASIC and CASC set 2026 priorities that emphasise aerospace-defence business lines and a concerted push to master reusable-rocket technology, signalling tighter alignment between private innovation and state industrial strategy.