China made two final launches in 2021. It successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 1113 GMT on 29 December. The vehicle was carrying the Tianhui 4 cartography satellite for the PLA (Peoples...
An EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) spacewalk by two of the crew of Shenzhou 13 – the fourth made from the Chinese Space Station “Tiangong” – began at 1044 GMT on 26 December 2021 with the hatch of the main Tianhe module being opened. Two “taikonauts” (Chinese...
China successfully launched a Long March 4C (CZ-2D) vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 0311 GMT on 26 December 2021. The launch vehicle was carrying the Ziyuan 1-2E imaging satellite and the Xixwan_3 (CAS-9) technology demonstrator and amateur...
A Long March 7A (CZ-7A) rocket launched a pair of Shiyan 12 satellies, Shiyan 12-01 and Shiyan 12-02 on a mission dubbed HOTS (High Orbit Test Satellite) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The launch occurred from the Wenchang satellite launch centre, Hainan Island...
According to Space News (Andrew Jones) a new planned Chinese optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite constellation dubbed 36 Tiangan has been announced which is designed to help disaster prevention, early warning and natural resource...
Russia launched a Proton M/Briz M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1207 GMT on 13 December, but not everything went to plan. The launch vehicle was carrying the Express AMU-3 (Ekspress-AMU 3) and Express AMU-7 (Ekspress-AMU 7)...
