Tag: China
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Long March 4B with Shijian-6 Group 5 satellites launches successfully from Jiuquan
A Long March 4B reportedly carrying a pair of Chinese Shijian-6 Group 05 satellites has launched successfully from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s Inner Mongolia region. The launch took place at 00:11 UTC (08:11 Beijing time) on Friday, December 10, from Site 9401 (SLS-2). Satellite launches from Jiuquan normally take place from this…
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China’s Galactic Energy launches second Ceres-1 rocket successfully
The Chinese private spaceflight company Galactic Energy has made the second flight of its Ceres-1 rocket, carrying five satellites into orbit, including a satellite known as Golden Bauhinia-1-03. The launch took place at 04:12 UTC on Tuesday, December 7th (12:12 Beijing time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Ceres-1 is a four-stage rocket, using…
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Kuaizhou-1A launches Shiyan-11 technology development satellite
The private Chinese launch company ExPace, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), has successfully launched the Shiyan-11 technology satellite from Site 95 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, central China. The ExPace Kuaizhou-1A rocket began its 13th launch — and its 12th…
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Wang Yaping becomes the first Chinese woman to walk in space
On November 7, Chinese taikonauts Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping conducted the first spacewalk for the Shenzhou-13 mission at the Chinese Space Station. The extravehicular activity (EVA) was the first for a Chinese woman and successfully installed new hardware on the exterior of the Tianhe core module. The extravehicular activity began when Wang Yaping and…
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Chang Zheng 3B lifts Shijian 21 to orbit
Without any prior announcements, China launched another Chang Zheng 3B/E rocket with the Shijian 21 payload to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The rocket took off at 01:27 UTC on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center’s LC-2. The launch was called a success two hours later and it was confirmed that the payload, Shijian…
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Shenzhou 13 launches first long-duration Chinese Space Station crew
After a successful launch to the new Chinese Space Station earlier this year and the initial 90-day “shakedown cruise” of the Shenzhou 12 crew, three taikonauts launched to the station aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft to begin the first long-duration stay aboard. Shenzhou 13 launched atop a Chang Zheng 2F (CZ-2F) rocket at 16:23 UTC…
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China launches hydrogen-alpha solar telescope aboard Long March 2D
China has launched a small experimental solar observatory as part of a multi-satellite launch aboard a Long March 2D rocket Thursday. The launch took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 10:51 UTC (18:51 Bejing time). Thursday’s launch carried eleven satellites, with the primary payload being the Chinese Hydrogen-Alpha Solar Explorer (CHASE), which was…
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Chang Zheng 4C lifts Gaofen-5-02 satellite to orbit
On Tuesday, September 7 China launched the second Gaofen-5 remote imagery satellite into a 705 km sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The launch took place at 03:01 UTC on a Chang Zheng 4C and was conducted from Launch Complex 9 at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China. The first launch attempt on Monday was scrubbed due…
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China launches Chang Zheng 3B for seventh TJSW mission
At 15:41 UTC on August 24, a Chang Zheng 3B (internationally known as Long March 3B) successfully lifted off from LC-3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China. It is believed the launch vehicle carried the seventh Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing (TJSW-7) satellite to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The nature of TJSW satellites is not…
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Chang Zheng 2C lofts experimental Chinese internet satellites into orbit
Just over a month after its most recent launch, a Chinese Chang Zheng 2C rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia, successfully carrying three new Chinese satellites into polar orbits around Earth. Although very little public information has been released about the rocket’s payloads, it is believed to consist of…