Tag: China
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China launches satellites for Saudi Arabia
A Chinese Long March 2D rocket lifts off Friday. Credit: CGWIC Two Saudi Arabian Earth observation satellites and 10 small secondary payloads rode a Long March 2D rocket into orbit Friday from the Jiuquan space base in China’s northwestern Inner Mongolia region, hours before the launch of a Chinese lunar probe targeting the first soft…
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China launches historic mission to land on far side of the moon
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) with additional details on the mission. A view of the far side of the moon and the distant Earth, captured by the service module for the Chang’e 5-T1 tech demo mission in 2014. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences A robotic lander and rover lifted off Friday…
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Long March 2D launches SaudiSAT-5A/B
China launched another orbital mission from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-2D (Chang Zheng-2D) launch vehicle on Friday orbiting several satellites along with primary payloads SaudiSAT-5A/B. Launch took place at 04:12 UTC from Launch Pad 94 of the LC34 Launch Complex. The Piao Chong 1 to 6 (Ladybug 1 to 6), Tianyi X1…
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China’s Long March 2D rocket launches five satellites
A Long March 2D rocket lifts off from the Jiuquan launch base with the Shiyan 6 satellite and four other payloads. Credit: Chinanews.com Five satellites rode a Long March 2D rocket into orbit Monday from the Jiuquan launch base in northwestern China, including a pathfinder for a planned constellation of low-altitude relay satellites and a…
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Long March 2D lofts Shiyan-6 mission and co-passengers
China launched another orbital mission from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-2D (Chang Zheng-2D) launch vehicle. The launch took place at 23:40 UTC from Launch Pad 94 of the LC34 Launch Complex. The main payload for this launch was the mysterious Shiyan Weixing-6 satellite. Chinese press refers this satellite to be used…
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China expands reach of Beidou navigation network with another launch
A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 1807 GMT Sunday (1:07 p.m. EST), or 2:07 a.m. Beijing time Monday, with two more Beidou navigation satellites. Credit: CALT Two more Beidou navigation satellites launched from China on Sunday, ending a record run of 18 satellite deployments this year for the Chinese alternative to GPS and…
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China maintains launch pace with another Beidou mission
A Long March 3B rocket lifted off Thursday from the Xichang space center. Credit: CALT China chalked up another launch Thursday with the on-target delivery of a Beidou navigation satellite destined for an operating post in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator. The navigation station lifted off at 1557 GMT (11:57 a.m.…
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China marks 32nd launch of 2018 with latest Beidou lift off
China has launched a new navigation satellite on Thursday, marking its 32nd orbital launch this year. The launch of Beidou-3G1Q (Beidou-1) took place from the LC2 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province, using a Long March-3B/G2 (Chang Zheng-3B/G2) launch vehicle. Launch time was 15:57 UTC. The Beidou-3G satellites are the Geosynchronous…
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China-France Oceanography Satellite launches on research mission
A joint oceanography research mission developed by Chinese and French scientists launched Monday on top of a Long March 2C rocket from the Jiuquan space center in remote northwestern China. After a period of post-launch checkouts and activations, the China-France Oceanography Satellite, or CFOSat, will begin a three-year mission to survey the world’s oceans, becoming…
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Long March 2C lofts CFOSAT for CNES
China launched a cooperative mission with the French agency CNES when the CFOSAT oceanographic satellite was lofted place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center at 00:43 UTC Monday. A Long March-2C (Chang Zhen-2C) rocket was used to launch the new satellite together with several small satellites. Developed jointly by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and…