While Rocket Lab had been enjoying recent success, both in terms of launches and sales, the wheels suddenly came off with the failure of its Electron rocket on 4 July. The launch vehicle took off from the Mahia Peninsula launch site in New Zealand at 2116 GMT. All...
China successfully launched the Gaofen Multimedia and Xibaipo Star satellites at 0310 GMT on 3 July 2020 on a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) launch vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in China. Gaofen X is a high resolution (sub 1 metre) multi-mode electro-optical...
After a previous technical delay to the rocket, China successfully launched Beidou 3 G3Q navigation satellite to a GTO (Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit) at 0143 GMT on 23 June 2020 on a Long March 3B/G3 vehicle from Xichang. The Beidou spacecraft is last needed to...
China may be having a worrying border dispute with India, but it is still launching satellites. China successfully launched the Gaofen 9-3 imaging satellite, Pixing 3A technology test sat and HEAD 1-5 AIS ship tracking satellite at 0719 GMT on 17 June on a Long March...
The Hai Yang 1D (HY-1D) ocean monitoring satellite was successfully launched by a Long March 2C (CZ-2C). The satellite is designed to monitor ocean temperatures etc. The launch took place from its launch pad in the Taiyuan Space Centre in the Shanxi province of China...
On 31 May 2020, China completed the launch of a sub-meter Earth imaging satellite, plus co-payload. The satellites were orbited by an Long March 2D/2, medium launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The primary payload was the Gaofen-9...
