Space Science in China

Abstract

China started to develop space science in the early 1960s. from 1960s to 1990s we have developed some payloads for space science study onboard the spacecrafts which are not fixed in space science. In the 1990s the space science experiments including space astronomy have been done in the SZ spacecrafts. Up to now we have launched five spacecrafts for space science experiment. Recently China's Geospace Double Star Exploration Program (DSP) is a very successful space science mission. More and more proposals, or potential projects have been proposed in recent two years. We try to briefly outline these new proposals, although most of them are in fact only in their conception studies.