A Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket was launched from the Taiyuan launch site at 0322 GMT on 20 December 2019. Aboard were eight spacecraft being carried to a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit. The main payload in terms of mass and mission, and the first one released, was...
Launching at 0322 GMT, on 20 December 2019, a Chinese Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket has carried nine satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The mission lift-off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The primary payload on the mission was the CBERS...
For the seventh time this year the Chinese have conducted a launch in service of their BeiDou satellite navigation constellation. This launch took place on 16 December 2019, at 0722 GMT, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southwestern China. The mission saw a...
China’s launch industry had a filip this month when it successfully launched two Kuaizhou 1A (KZ-1A) (aka Feitian 1) launch vehicles on “commercial” launches from the same launch site in a single day. The “commercial” Exspace company (a...
China has launched the Gaofen 12 syntheric aperture radar (SAR) satellite using a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket at 2352 GMT on 27 November 2019. The spacecraft launch occurred from Taiyuan launch site. According to US Space Command the spacecraft is in 595 x 599 km x...
A Long March 3B/YZ-1 (CZ-3B/YZ-1) rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, South-western China, on 23 November, at 00.55 GMT. The mission is to aid the Chinese satellite navigation system, Beidou – Compass in English. On board the rocket were two...
