A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket, built by SAST, carried 41 Jilin-1 satellites into LEO from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, after lifting off at 0530 GMT on 15 June. The event marked the most satellites launched at one time by a Chinese rocket. Onboard...
At 0410 GMT on 7 June 2023, the second launch of the Lijian-1 (Kinetica-1) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China reportedly put 26 satellites into orbit. This rocket built by CAS Space (partially owned by the Chinese Academy of...
A Chinese CASIC-operated Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket launch vehicle was launched at 0235 GMT on 9 June 2023 from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia. Aboard was the Longjiang-3 high-bandwidth communications test satellite. The satellite is built by the Harbin...
Shenzhou 15, with its crew of three (Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu) aboard, undocked from the forward port of the Tianhe module of the Chinese Space Station (CSS Tiangong) at 1329 GMT on 3 June 2023. After making a re-entry burn Shenzhou 15 landed in Inner...
A Long March 2F/G (Y16) launched Shenzhou 16 with three Chinese astronauts (“Taikonauts”) on board on their way to the China Space Station “Tiangong”. The launch took placed at 0131 GMT on 30 May 2023 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in...
At 0800 GMT on 21 May China successfully launched a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The mission placed three satellites into LEO for two Chinese universities: Luojia 2-01, a SAR microsatellite for Wuhan University and Aomen...
