by David Todd | Nov 17, 2014 | China, Military space
At 1853 GMT on 14 November 2014, a suspected Chinese military radar satellite, Yaogan 23, was launched by a Long March 2C launch vehicle operating from the Taiyuan launch site in China. The satellite is thought to be from the same Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) design...
by David Todd | Nov 3, 2014 | China, exploration
The Chang’e 5 T1 spacecraft returned to Earth on 31 October 2014. The re-entry capsule of Chang’e 5-T1 made a successful double skip re-entry and landed at 2242 GMT in the northern region of Inner Mongolia. On its eight-day mission,...
by David Todd | Oct 27, 2014 | China, Launches, Satellites
A Chinese Long March 2C rocket successfully launched the Shi Jian 11-08 spacecraft using a Long March 2C launch vehicle flying out of Jiuquan at 0659 GMT on 27 October 2014. Details about the spacecraft remain sketchy save to note that it was built by China Spacesat...
by David Todd | Oct 24, 2014 | China, exploration, Launches, Satellites
At 1800 GMT on 23 October 2014, a Chinese Long March 3C/G2 launch vehicle successfully took off from the Xichang launch site in China on its way to the Moon. Aboard was the Chang’e 5-T1 test spacecraft, a scaled down version of the Shen Zhou manned re-entry...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
While wrapped in the official description of being for civilian use, at 0631 GMT on 20 October 2014, a Long March 4C put a suspected Chinese military reconnaissance satellite, Yaogan 22, into a near polar Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit from the Taiyuan launch site...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | China, Launches, Satellites
At 0515 GMT on 28 September 2014, China launched a new military satellite called Shi Jian 11-07 from the Jiuquan launch site in China using the Long March 2C launch vehicle. The spacecraft, which uses a CAST 968 bus built by the DongFangHong (DFH) Satellite Company...
