China successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan Province, China at 0312 GMT on 17 August 2023. The vehicle carried a trio of Yaogan 39 Group 2 (Yaogan 39-02-A, B, C) Chinese reconnaissance satellites. The orbit...
Launching at 0430 GMT on 10 September a Chinese Long March 6A (CZ-6A) rocket carried the Yaogan 40 mission into a 800 km polar orbit. This mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, northern China. Chinese state media refers to this mission in a...
Launching at 1814 GMT on 6 September a Chinese Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket has carried the Yaogan 33-03 satellite into a 700 km LEO. The mission lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, northwest China. Chinese state media describes the Yaogan 33...
At 0934 GMT on 5 September a Ceres-1S rocket built by Chinese company Galactic Energy successfully lifted-off from a modified barge launch platform in the Yellow Sea. Onboard the rocket were four smallsats of the Tianqi (Apocalypse) IoT constellation. This launch...
At 0736 GMT on 31 August a Chinese Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket carried a triplet of satellites into LEO. The mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The three payloads on this mission were identified as a new Yaogan-series, Yaogan-39....
China successfully launched a CERES 1 (GUSHENXING-1) launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China on 25 August 2023 at 0459 GMT. It carried JILIN-1 KUANFU 02A, which is a multispectral optical satellite to monitor remote sensing data related to the...
