At 0330 GMT, a Chinese Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket lifted-off from the Xichnag Satellite Launch Center, PRC, carrying two secretive experimental satellites. The two spacecraft are only known as XJS-A and XJS-B. They were reportedly built by CAST (Chinese Academy of...
Having had a successful, if insubstantial, peace making summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, US President Donald J. Trump returned to the White House to much discord. Controversial topics include, the US familial separation of illegal immigrant children, and...
The latest in a long series of Chinese weather satellites, Feng Yun 2H ,was successfully launched towards a Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China at 1307 GMT on 5 June 2018. The 1,390kg satellite was built by Shanghai...
A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket successfully launched the Gaofen-6 Earth observation/Remote sensing satellite from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia, China. The satellite was launched at 0413 GMT on 2 June 2018. Unlike many of China’s programmes...
China has launched a new lunar satellite called Queqiao. This is no scientific probe or lunar rover, however. Instead it is a lunar communications relay satellite that will be used to relay data from future lunar exploration missions, including those to the far side...
The OneSpace Technology firm based in Beijing, China, is claiming to have developed China’s first “all commercial” launch vehicle. The rocket is called Chongqing Liangiang Star-1 (CLS-1), and which is also known as OS-XO, uses solid rocket...
