by David Todd | Nov 26, 2013 | China, commercial launch services, Satellites
China launched the Shiyan Weixing 5 spacecraft using a Long March 2D launch vehicle from the Jiuquan space centre in China. The spacecraft is officially for use as an experimental research and environmental surveying satellite. Western analysts believe that Shiyan...
by David Todd | Nov 22, 2013 | China, commercial launch services, Satellites
A Chinese Long March 4C launch vehicle launched the Yaogan 19 satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit at 0331 GMT on 20 November from the Taiyuan launch site in China. China publicly announced that the satellite would be used for civil earth observation purposes. The...
by David Todd | Nov 6, 2013 | China, Seradata News
Nicaragua’s Telcor (Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office) has signed a turnkey construction and delivery-to-orbit contract with China’s China Great Wall Industries Corp (CGWIC) for Nicasat-1, a telecommuncations satellite. The...
by David Todd | Nov 5, 2013 | China, exploration, History
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched India’s first Mars probe, the Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission, which was launched by a PSLV-XL from the Sriharikota launch site at 0908 GMT on 5 November 2013. There was a reported very slight...
by David Todd | Oct 31, 2013 | China, commercial launch services, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Technology
A heavy-lift launch vehicle is viewed as one of the core capabilities needed for long range space exploration and both NASA and China’s space programme have committed to building this type of launch vehicle. To stop the Russian space programme falling behind,...
by David Todd | Oct 29, 2013 | China, commercial launch services, Satellites
Without notice, China launched the Yaogan 18 satellite using its Long March 2C launch vehicle from the Taiyuan launch site in the Shanxi province of China at 0250 GMT on 28 October. Offically, China, via its main news services, has declared the satelite to have been...
