Tag: China
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China Achieves First Land-Based Recovery of an Orbital-Class Rocket Booster as Zhuque-3 Returns Upright
Source: LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd. China has successfully completed its first land-based recovery of an orbital-class launch vehicle first stage using powered vertical landing and landing legs, marking a major milestone in the country’s reusable launch vehicle development. At 7:35 a.m. Beijing time on August 19, Zhuque-3 Y2, a reusable launch vehicle developed by LandSpace…
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From Carbon Emissions to Carbon Sinks: How Satellites Support Carbon Monitoring
As the world continues to pursue net-zero targets, carbon data is becoming an increasingly important foundation for climate governance, corporate emissions reduction, and ecosystem management. Countries need to quantify and assess greenhouse gas emissions more accurately. Companies need an ongoing understanding of emissions changes across their operations and associated facilities. Carbon markets and carbon projects…
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Commercial Space 2.0: Where Are the Opportunities for China’s Second-Generation Rocket Companies?
China’s commercial rocket industry officially began to take shape in 2015, when three government ministries jointly issued guidelines encouraging its development. Looking back from where the industry stands today, it took a decade for China to largely complete its policy framework and develop a basic supply chain. That period also saw the arrival of market…
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China’s New Space Contest Will Be Fought With Commercial Satellites
Over the past decade, the commercial space industry has transformed satellites from assets reserved for national-level missions into industrial products that can be mass-produced and deployed on demand. As thousands of low-Earth-orbit broadband, remote-sensing and navigation satellites form constellations, space is taking on the characteristics of infrastructure for the first time—continuously providing connectivity, observation and…
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Deep Blue Aerospace Partners with AME Aviation to Build a Smart Manufacturing Foundation for Reusable Rockets
In August 2026, Jiangsu Deep Blue Aerospace Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou AME Aviation Manufacturing Equipment Co., Ltd. formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement at AME Aviation’s industrial park in Hangzhou. The cross-sector partnership brings together one of China’s leading developers of reusable liquid-fueled rockets and a specialized innovator in intelligent aerospace manufacturing. The two companies…
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China Successfully Launches SEO Satellite in 664th Long March Rocket Mission
China successfully launched an SEO satellite aboard a Long March-2C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 11:02 a.m. on August 17. The satellite entered its designated orbit, marking the successful completion of the mission. The launch marked the 664th flight of China’s Long March carrier rocket series. It came just seven days…
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China Successfully Launches 24th Group of Low-Orbit Internet Satellites
China successfully launched a new batch of internet satellites from the Hainan Commercial Spacecraft Launch Site on Sunday. The satellites, the 24th group of low-orbit internet satellites, lifted off aboard a Long March-12 carrier rocket at 12:10 p.m. Beijing Time on Aug. 16, 2026, and successfully entered their preset orbits. The launch marked the 663rd…
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Chinese meteorological satellites track Typhoon Dolphin in coordinated observation
China’s Fengyun meteorological satellites, developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), have been deployed in coordinated multi-satellite observations to track Typhoon Dolphin, providing critical data support for the country’s meteorological authorities. The Fengyun-4C and Fengyun-4B satellites operated in tandem to continuously monitor the typhoon’s evolution from its formation over the open ocean to…
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Why Inter-Satellite Laser Communications Have Become a Strategic Battleground for Satellite Internet
In the traditional satellite-to-Earth transmission model, satellites serve only as relay nodes: they forward information but do not process it directly, while ground gateways and terrestrial networks perform the core functions. With inter-satellite links, by contrast, satellites can transmit and exchange information directly without routing every connection through a ground station. Each spacecraft acts as…
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ChinaSat Satellite Series Overview: How China Built the Strategic Communications Network Behind Its Space Power
The failed ChinaSat-4B launch has once again drawn attention to one of the most important yet least understood pillars of China’s space program: the ChinaSat communications satellite fleet. Over three decades, the program has evolved from reliance on foreign-built spacecraft into one of the world’s largest geostationary communications satellite systems, supporting everything from television broadcasting…