China has underlined its position as leading space launch provider in terms of nationality. A Long March 4C (CZ-4C) was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 2344 GMT on 26 February. The spacecraft aboard was the Ludi Tance radar satellite. Under four...
Space News reports that China’s docking technology test satellite Shijian-21, having completed its own rendevous testing with a dummy satellite while in an eight degree inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit (GSO), was moved in late December 2021 to rendezvous and...
The Chinese telecommunications satellite Chinasat-6A (aka Sinosat 6) is likely to be declared a total loss for insurance purposes after the satellite failed to recover from the attitude control issues it has been suffering since early December. The satellite, which...
China successfully launched a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 2355 on 25 January 2022. The vehicle was carrying the Ludi Tance-01-A (English meaning: Land Exploration-01-A) satellite which carries a L-band...
A Chinese Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket built by SAST (Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology) and operated by the quasi-military CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp) put Shiyan-13 – officially a technology test satellite – into orbit at...
Taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) aboard the Chinese Space Station (CSS) conducted a manual remote undocking involving the unberthing from the forward port of the Tianhe-1 module at circa 2150 GMT on 7 January 2021 and moving it using the station’s robot arm first...
