A Long March 3B/YZ-1 (CZ-3B/YZ-1) rocket was successfully launched from the Xichang launch site at 2352 GMT on 24 August 2018. The launch carried two Beidou navigation satellites, Beidou-3 M11-S and Beidou-3 M12-S, into a 55 degree inclined Medium Earth Orbit 21,000...
While the original space race between superpowers – the USA and Soviet Union during the 1960s – was effectively ended with NASA’s successful Apollo Moon landings (1969-1972), a new “Great Space Race” has begun again, and this time more nations are...
The Chinese state television company China Central Television (CCTV) has ordered its first satellite CCTV-1 and a launch to take it into space. The recipient of the launch order is the start-up “private” Chinese launch firm, LandSpace Techologies. ...
Lifting off at 0140 GMT, 29 July, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People’s Republic of China, a Long March-3B/Y1 (CZ-3B/Y1) rocket carried two BEIDOU satellites in to orbit. The two units, BEIDOU-3M5/-3M6, form part of the indigenous Chinese Beidou...
China has launched the Beidou-2 I7 satellite as part of its navigation constellation which is broadly equivalent to the US GPS system. The satellite was launched at 2058 GMT on 9 July, on its way to a highly inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit by a Long March 3A...
Two Pakistan-owned satellites have been launched from the Jiuquan launch site by a Long March 2C-SMA rocket at 0356 GMT on 9 July 2018. The 1,200 kg PRSS-1 satellite was built by Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and will be used for natural disaster...
