A Long March 4B (CZ-4B) launch vehicle has successfully launched three Tianhui Earth imaging satellites into low Earth apparently Sun-synchnronous orbits. The satellites carry the official titles of Tianhui Yi Hao 01 Xing, Tianhui Yi Hao 02 Xing, Tianhui Yi Hao 03...
China launched another satellite as part of its Beidou navigation satellite constellation at 1441 GMT on 20 April 2019. The launch from the Xichang launch site used a Long March 3B/G2 launch vehicle to send the CAST-built Beidou 3-I1Q on a geosynchronous transfer...
China has launched the latest version of its Tianlian data relay satellites which are broadly equivalent to NASA’s TDRS types. The Tianlian 2-01, which uses the DFH-4 bus design, was launched at 1551 GMT on 30 March 2019 from Xichang aboard a Long March 3B-G2. ...
The private Chinese company OneSpace Technology suffered a launch failure using its OS-M1 (aka Chongqing and SQX-1Y1) rocket on its first orbital attempt. After a successful lift off from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert at circa 0939 GMT on 27 March, the...
A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) rocket successfully put into orbit the Chinasat 6C (Zhongxing 6C) communications satellite into a supersynchronous transfer orbit of 400603 x 181km at 181 km at 24.6 degrees inclination on its way to its final geostationary Earth orbit...
A Chinese Long March 11 rocket launched two Jilin Earth observation satellites from the Jiuquan launch site at 0542 GMT on 21 January 2019. The two satellites Jilin Hyperspectral 01 and Jilin Hyperspectral 02 were built and will be owned and operated by the Chang...
