China’s unpiloted cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-4, docked with the Chinese Space Station (CSS) at 0047 GMT on 10 May, seven hours after its televised Long March 7 (CZ-7) launch which was broadcast on Chinese state media. The cargo freighter was launched at 1756 GMT...
A Long March-2D (CZ-2D) rocket launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China, at 0238 GMT on 5 May. The mission carried eight Jilin-1 Earth Observation satellites to a low Earth orbit (LEO). The primary payload was the larger Jilin-1 Kuanfu-01C...
A Long March 11H (CZ-11H) was launched from a ship/barge called the Tai Rui located in the Yellow Sea off China at 0330 GMT on 30 April 2022. On board were five Jilin-1 commercial imaging satellites which were deployed successfully into a sun-synchronous low Earth...
China successfully launched a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0411 GMT on 29 April. The vehicle was carrying two Earth observation spacecraft, Siwie 01 and Siwie 02. These 540 kg low Earth orbit – Sun synchronous...
As part of its planetary defence strategy, China plans to launch an asteroid impactor mission to deflect the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid. The test mission, as reported by SpaceNews (Andrew Jones), will make close-up observations of a selected, potentially...
At 1655 GMT on 15 April, the Chinese astronaut-carrying Shenzhou 13 spacecraft undocked from the nadir (or Earth-facing) port of the Chinese Space Station (CSS/Tianhe 1) with Commander Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu onboard. The 182-day mission was the...
