https://www.scmp.com/rss/327842/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is partnering with a domestic rocket developer, with the lofty goal of delivering parcels anywhere in the world within an hour. The experiment, to be co-conducted by Alibaba’s Taobao marketplace and Beijing-based start-up Space Epoch, will take place “in the near future” using a reusable rocket that can land on the sea, according to a Sunday post by Space Epoch on its official WeChat account. Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3257463/alibaba-test-rocket-parcel-delivery-service-lofty-attempt-ship-goods-anywhere-world-within-hour?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3257463/alibaba-test-rocket-parcel-delivery-service-lofty-attempt-ship-goods-anywhere-world-within-hour?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:00:14 +0000 This article originally appeared on ABACUS China loves buying products through live streaming, but you don’t expect to find people hawking space tech in their videos. But in a live stream on Taobao on Wednesday night, a famous live streaming host sold a 40 million yuan (US$5.6 million) rocket launch service. (Abacus is a unit of the South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba, the operator of Taobao.) The service comes from ExPace, a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry... https://www.scmp.com/abacus/news-bites/article/3078136/chinas-live-streaming-sales-queen-sold-rocket-launch-service?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/abacus/news-bites/article/3078136/chinas-live-streaming-sales-queen-sold-rocket-launch-service?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:09:41 +0000 China loves buying products through live streaming, but you don’t expect to find people hawking space tech in their videos. But in a live stream on Taobao on Wednesday night, a famous live streaming host sold a 40 million yuan (US$5.6 million) rocket launch service. (Abacus is a unit of the South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba, the operator of Taobao.) The service comes from ExPace, a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. Changchun-based Chang Guang... https://www.scmp.com/china-tech-city/chinas-live-streaming-sales-queen-sold-rocket-launch-service-taobao/article/3078062?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china-tech-city/chinas-live-streaming-sales-queen-sold-rocket-launch-service-taobao/article/3078062?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:09:39 +0000 China’s most powerful rocket plunged into the ocean soon after its launch last summer, temporarily halting hopes to send a vehicle to the moon to fetch lunar samples. The failure of the rocket was seen as a huge setback for China’s space program. Now Chinese scientists believe they have figured out where things went wrong. The rocket “literally choked to death,” said a scientist at Beihang University’s School of Astronautics in Beijing. Just six minutes after blast-off on July 2, the first stage... https://www.scmp.com/science/what-happened-failed-rocket-launch-set-back-chinas-moon-mission/article/2142121?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/science/what-happened-failed-rocket-launch-set-back-chinas-moon-mission/article/2142121?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:53:31 +0000