Tag: Zhongxing
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX pushes for 100 flights in the year with a ISS resupply, a rideshare mission, and more
SpaceX is actively working to reach its goal of 100 launches by the end of this year with four launches carrying many different types of payloads coming this week. Additionally, China has continued to upgrade its satellites in orbit with the 150th launch of its Chang Zheng 3B/E rocket. A Starlink mission started out the…
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China launches two satellites following EVA at Tiangong station
The Chinese space program has resumed launches after going over a month without a single launch due to the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival holiday period. On Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7:49 PM Beijing time (11:49 UTC), Chang Zheng 3B Y93 flew successfully from pad LC-2 at Xichang in southwest China. This flight, the…
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China launches Zhongxing-19 mission from Xichang
China successfully launched the Zhongxing-19 mission on a Chang Zheng 3B/E rocket today. The rocket took off at 11:50 UTC from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China and launched into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). This launch is a replacement payload for the previously malfunctioned Zhongxing-18 satellite, which was initially launched on the same rocket…
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China successfully launches radio and television broadcasting satellite
Thursday marked another successful mission in China’s busy 2021 launch manifest, this time lofting the Zhongxing-9B (ChinaSat-9B) into orbit on a Long March 3B from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. This satellite serves as a replacement to the Zhongxing-9A, launched in 2017 but inserted into a lower than planned orbit, and thus its operational life…
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China launches Zhongxing-2E on Long March 3B
China’s space program successfully launched the Zhongxing-2E mission on Thursday, August 5. This is the third Chinese mission of the week, after a Hyperbola-1 launch by the private company iSpace which failed to open the payload fairing, and Wednesday’s surprise launch of a Long March 6. The Zhongxing-2E satellite, operated by China Satellite Communications, launched…