China launched the Yaogan 31 (Yaogan Weixing 31) satellite into a Sun Synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO) at 0411 GMT, 3 December on a Long March 2D vehicle from launch complex LC43 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The satellite is officially reported to have a...
While there was mystery surrounding the morning (GMT) launch of three Chinese Yaogan 30-01 military surveillance spacecraft from the Xiching launch site in late September 2017, another Long March 2C rocket has since delivered three more of the satellites from the same...
Lifting off at 0450 GMT, 21 November, a Chinese Long March-6 light-launch vehicle has carried three Earth observation microsatellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The rocket was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, in northern China and...
The Feng Yun 3D (FENG YUN 3-4) meteorological satellite was launched by a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket at 1835 GMT on 14 November 2017. The launch took place from the Taiyuan launch site in China. Built by Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering for the China...
While the previous launch of a Long March 3B/YZ-1 rocket ended in partial failure, the launch vehicle came back to success with the successful launch of two CAST-built navigation satellites, Beidou-3 M1 and Beidou-3 M2, at 1145 GMT on 5 November 2017. The launch of...
At 0413 GMT, 9 October, a Long March-2D (CZ-2D) rocket lifted-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying the second Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite, VRSS-2. The satellite was placed into 645 km sun-synchronous orbit. In 2014, following the...
