Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Jones, a Helsinki-based reporter who over the last several years has secured a place as the go-to English-language journalist covering China’s space program. With the successful arrival of the Tianwen spacecraft in Martian orbit and the deployment of the Zhurong Mars rover just three months after the U.S.’s own latest rover, the Perseverance, rolled out onto the surface of the red planet, China has shown that it’s catching up quickly. But China’s space program also comes in for criticism for its opacity and for potentially dangerous practices – like the uncontrolled reentry of a large Long March 5B rocket in early May. Andrew gives the latest on China’s outer space ambitions, including planned missions to Jupiter’s outermost Galilean moon, Callisto, and beyond the edge of our solar system.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.