by David Todd | Sep 1, 2016 | China, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
China’s Long March 4C (CZ-4C) launch vehicle has suffered a launch failure. The three-stage rocket, which was launched at approximately 1853 GMT on 31 August 2016 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China, was carrying the Gaofen 10 Earth observation...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 30, 2016 | China, Finance, Satellites
On 24 August, the major shareholders of the Israeli Fixed Service Satellite (FSS) operator, Spacecom (Space Communications), announced that they had agreed a deal that would see the company bought by Beijing Xinwei Technology Group, a large conglomerate based in...
by David Todd | Aug 16, 2016 | China, Launches, Satellites, Science
A Long March 2D/2 rocket successfully blasted off from the Jiuquan launch site in China on 15 August 2016 at 1740 GMT. Aboard the rocket were three spacecraft. The main payload was the QUESS (Quantum Experiment Scientific Satellite) which has subsequently been renamed...
by David Todd | Aug 10, 2016 | China, Launches, Satellites
The Gaofen 3 Earth resources radar satellite has been launched by China at 2255 GMT on 9 August 2016. The satellite was sent into a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit by a Long March 4C launch vehicle flying out of Taiyuan, in China. The satellite is equipped with a...
by David Todd | Aug 9, 2016 | China, Military space
War in the oceans of the Far East is becoming more likely. Having decided to ignore the international arbitration ruling that their sovereignty claims over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea were inferior compared to those of the Philippines, China is...
by David Todd | Aug 7, 2016 | China
A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) launch vehicle successfully sent the Chinasatcom owned Tiantong 1-01 S-band mobile communications satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on 5 August 2016. The satellite is expected to raise itself to its final operation...
