Tag: China
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China launches environmental monitoring satellite
A Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 0054 GMT Wednesday (8:54 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China. Credit: Xinhua China launched a Long March 2D rocket Wednesday carrying a Yunhai environmental monitoring satellite into an orbit some 470 miles (760 kilometers) above Earth. The Long March 2D booster took…
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Second Yunhai-1 lofted by Chinese Long March 2D
China launched a new meteorological satellite on September 25 using a Long March-2D launch vehicle. Launch of the second Yunhai-1 satellite took place at 00:54 UTC from the LC43/94 Launch Complex of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. This was the fifth Chinese orbital launch in less than a month. The Yunhai-1 are a series of…
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Second Yunhai-1 lofted by Chinese Long March 2D
China launched a new meteorological satellite on September 25 using a Long March-2D launch vehicle. Launch of the second Yunhai-1 satellite took place at 00:54 UTC from the LC43/94 Launch Complex of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. This was the fifth Chinese orbital launch in less than a month. The Yunhai-1 are a series of…
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Two more satellites launched into China’s Beidou navigation fleet
A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 2110 GMT Sunday (5:10 p.m. EDT), or 5:10 a.m. Beijing time Monday, with two more Beidou navigation satellites. Credit: Xinhua China added two more satellites to the country’s Beidou navigation fleet — an analog to the U.S. military’s GPS network — with a successful Long March 3B…
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Five Chinese smallsats launched by Long March 11 rocket
A solid-fueled Long March 11 rocket lifts off from the Jiuquan launch base Thursday at 0642 GMT (2:42 a.m. EDT; 2:42 p.m. Beijing time). Credit: Xinhua Five commercial Earth-imaging satellites rode a Long March 11 rocket into orbit Thursday from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China. The five satellites will join the Zhuhai 1…
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Long March 11 lofts Zhuhai-1 Group-3 satellites
China launched five new small remote sensing satellites on Thursday using a Long March 11 (Chang Zheng 11) rocket. The launch of the Zhuhai-1 Group-3 satellites took place at 06:42 UTC on September 19 from a mobile platform at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Onboard were four hyperspectral satellites and one video satellite comprising the…
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China returns Long March 4 to service with Ziyuan launch
China launched a new remote sensing satellite using a Long March 4B launch vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. Launch of the Ziyuan (ZY-1 02D) satellite took place around 03:26 UTC from the LC9 Launch Complex. The launch returns the Long March 4 to flight after an issue with “structural resonance” between…
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China launches Earth-observing satellites, solar sail experiment
A Long March 4B rocket lifted off Thursday from the Taiyuan space center in China. Credit: CCTV Two Earth-imaging satellites and an experimental solar sail payload rocketed into orbit Thursday aboard a Chinese Long March 4B launcher, the first flight for China’s Long March 4 rocket family since an upper stage failure in May. The…
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Two satellites launch aboard Chinese Kuaizhou 1A rocket
Two experimental Chinese satellites have launched on a Kuaizhou 1A rocket from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China. The Kuaizhou 1A light-class launcher lifted off at 2341 GMT (7:41 p.m. EDT) on Aug. 30 from Jiuquan, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. Two small satellites were aboard the Kuaizhou 1A rocket — one…
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Kuaizhou-1A lofts two satellites for China
The Chinese launched two new small satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in a mission managed by the Expace company. The launch took place at 23:41UTC on Friday, using the Kuaizhou-1A (Y10) rocket. Onboard the solid fuelled launch vehicle was the KX-09 and the Xiaoxiang 1-07 satellites. Developed by the DFH Satellite Co., the…