by David Todd | Dec 11, 2015 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
China has launched a new communications satellite dubbed CHINASAT 1C (ZHONGXING 1C) from the launch site at Xichang at 1626 GMT on 9 December 2015. The rocket which carried the spacecraft to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) on its way to a final geostationary...
by David Todd | Dec 9, 2015 | China, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, ESA, History, India, Launches, Military space, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, SLS, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Technology, Virgin Galactic
The World Launcher Review has technical descriptions and commentaries covering every major orbital launch vehicle flying and in development, including their launch sites and their commercial launch providers. It also has a market analysis and a review of those factors...
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2015 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
The People’s Republic of China has launched its Yaogan 29 spacecraft officially described as being designed for the purposes of “experiments, land survey, crop yield assessment, and disaster monitoring.” The launch by a Long March 4C rocket took...
by David Todd | Nov 24, 2015 | China, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1607 GMT on 20 November 2015, a Long March 3B/G2 rocket successfully lifted off from the Xichang launch site in China. On board was the first communications satellite for the nation of Laos called LAOSAT-1. The launch took place under a construction and delivery...
by David Todd | Nov 9, 2015 | China, Launches, Military space
A Yaogan 28 satellite was successfully launched b China’s Long March 4B launch vehicle launched from the Taiyuan launch site. The launch took place at 0706 GMT on 8 November 2015. Officially the spacecraft is for scientific experiments, land survey, crop...
by David Todd | Nov 6, 2015 | China, Launches, Military space, Seradata News
A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) launch vehicle successfully launched the military communications satellite Chinasat 2C (Zhongxing 2C) into orbit on its way to Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) from the Xichang launch site in China at 1625 GMT on 3 November 2015. The...
