by David Todd | Apr 1, 2019 | China, Launches, Satellites
China has launched the latest version of its Tianlian data relay satellites which are broadly equivalent to NASA’s TDRS types. The Tianlian 2-01, which uses the DFH-4 bus design, was launched at 1551 GMT from Xichang aboard a Long March 3B-G2. Before this...
by David Todd | Mar 27, 2019 | China, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
The private Chinese company OneSpace Technology suffered a launch failure using its OS-M1 (aka Chongqing and SQX-1Y1) rocket on its first orbital attempt. After a successful lift off from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert at circa 0939 GMT on 27 March, the...
by David Todd | Mar 11, 2019 | China, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) rocket successfully put into orbit the Chinasat 6C (Zhongxing 6C) communications satellite into a supersynchronous transfer orbit of 400603 x 181km at 181 km at 24.6 degrees inclination on its way to its final geostationary Earth orbit...
by David Todd | Jan 21, 2019 | China, Launches, Seradata News
A Chinese Long March 11 rocket launched two Jilin Earth observation satellites from the Jiuquan launch site at 0542 GMT on 21 January 2019. The two satellites Jilin Hyperspectral 01 and Jilin Hyperspectral 02 were built and will be owned and operated by the Chang...
by David Todd | Jan 15, 2019 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), the launch provider and satellite project manager, has announced a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with Satellogic, a satellite operator based in Argentina and Uruguay. Under the agreement, CGWIC will launch 90...
by David Todd | Jan 11, 2019 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
A Chinese military communications satellite Chinasat 2D (Zhongxing-2D) – the third in the series of military Shentong 2 class satellites – was launched by a Long March 3B-G3 (CZ-3B-G3) rocket at 1703 GMT on 10 January 2018. The launch using a Long March...
