At 0300 GMT, a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket lifted off from the Jiuguan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying the long-delayed HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope) payload. The mission was initially scheduled to launch in 2010, but had been delayed to 2015, then...
While the chance of being hit by space hardware is miniscule, large objects have been known to hit land. This famously happened after the faster than expected re-entry of NASA’s Skylab space station, which hit a mainly uninhabited part of Australia in 1979 before the...
Space News (Caleb Henry) reports that the China Great Wall Industries Corp has had another success with its strategy of offering turnkey construction and launch deals to commercial and national enterprises around the world. The deals were developed as a way of getting...
A Long March 7 (CZ-7) launch vehicle lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on Hainan Island, South West China, at 1140 GMT on 20 April 2017. The rocket was carrying the Tianzhou-1 unmanned freighter spacecraft into orbit. The 13,000kg freighter, which is...
The Chinasat 16 experimental communications satellite (aka Shi Jian 13) was aboard a CALT operated Long March 3B-G2 (CZ 3B-G2) which lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in southwest China, at 1104 GMT on 12 April 2017. The satellite is based on the...
China’s small solid-propellant Kaituozhe KT-2A launch vehicle was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 2353 GMT on 2 February 2017. On board the flight was the Tiankong-1 spacecraft, which was built by the China Aerospace and Industry...
