Launching from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, a Long March 2c (CZ-2C) rocket has placed four payloads into LEO (Low Earth Orbit). Lift-off took place at 1519 GMT, 26 October. The primary payload was the three satellites making up the seventh Yaogan Weixing-30...
A Long March 3B-G3 (CZ-3B/G3) launch vehicle successfully launched itself from the Xichang launch site in China at 1657 GMT on 11 October 2020. The Gaofen-13 spacecraft carried on the flight is an Earth Observation satellite which has been surprisingly been launched...
With only about a month to go to the US Presidential Election on 3 November, we assess President Donald J. Trump’s successes and failures. While he has made serious – sometimes disastrous – errors, Trump’s opponents and detractors may not like it, but he was not wrong...
China’s Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket launched a pair of Huanging satellites, HJ-2A, and HJ-2B, from the Taiyuan launch site in China. Life off was at 0323 GMT on 27 September 2020. Both spacecraft were put into near polar sun-synchronous orbits above 600 km. ...
China has launched an ocean study satellite Hai Yang 2C (HY-2C) marine remote sensing satellite to a Sun-synchronous near polar low Earth orbit, using a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket. The launch took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on 21 September 2020...
China conducted a second sea-based launch at 0123 GMT on 15 September. The mission utilised the De Bo 3 converted rescue and salvage ship as a launch platform in the Yellow Sea. Using a four-stage, solid, Long March 11 (CZ-11H) rocket, the launch carried nine...
