by David Todd | Oct 27, 2015 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0710 GMT on 26 October 2015, a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) launch vehicle lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China on its way to successfully placing the Tianhui 1-03 spacecraft into a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit. The circa 1,000kg...
by David Todd | Oct 26, 2015 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Virgin Galactic
While SpaceX had a major exhibition stand at the IAC 2015, the firm was strangely quiet in not having many presentations at the congress. Nevertheless, it remains the “elephant in the room” via its low prices and attempts to perfect a reusable landing stage. Even the...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2015 | China, Launches, Satellites
A Long March 3B/G2, upgraded version of the Long March 3B successfully launched the Apstar 9 communications satellite from the Xichang launch site in China. The launch took place at 1616 GMT on 16 October. The spacecraft, which uses a CAST-built DFH-4, was built in a...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | China, Satellites
A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) successfully launched four spacecraft at 0413 GMT on 7 September 2015 from the Jiuquan launch site in China. The largest of the four spacecraft was the 430kg satellite called Jilin-1 which designed to image the Earth for the purpose of...
by David Todd | Sep 30, 2015 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
China launched the BDS I2-S (Beidou-20) navigation spacecraft into an inclined Geosynchronous orbit using a Long March 3B-G2 rocket – an enhanced version of the Long March 3B. The launch of the 4,200kg satellite took place from the Xichang launch site in China....
by David Todd | Sep 25, 2015 | China, Launches, Satellites
The maiden flight of the Long March-11 solid rocket-based quick-response launch vehicle took place from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia at 0121 GMT on 25 September 2015. Aboard the rocket was a mysterious satellite called Pujiang-1, built by the Shanghai...
