China launched a Long March 7A vehicle carrying the Shiyan 9 satellite into GEO at 1751 GMT on 11 March from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island. The Shiyan 9’s mission is believed to be imaging the Earth from Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO). The satellite...
China launched three Yaogan 31-03 satellites, Yaogan 31-03-A, -B, and -C, into low Earth orbit at 0222 GMT on 24 February 2021. The satellites were launched on a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China. The three...
Just like London buses, three Mars missions all seemed to arrive at the same time. While this was mainly due to planetary alignments favouring certain launch and thus arrival dates, inexpert media commentators reported that a “race” had happened and that the United...
China has launched a Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 1536 GMT, 4 February. There was some uncertainty regarding the payload however it is now believed to be the re-flight of TJSW-6 (XJY-6) which was destroyed in March last year...
Following a successful maiden flight, the Hyperbola-1 (aka SQX-1 – Shian Quxian-1) launch vehicle suffered a launch failure on its second flight from Jiuquan in China. It lifted off successfully at 0815 GMT on 1 February 2021. However, the four-stage solid rocket went...
China conducted a Long March 4C launch at 0447 GMT, 29 January from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. This mission placed the second YAOGAN 31 satellite triplet into LEO. These satellites are officially for carrying out “electromagnetic...
