Tag: China
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Mystery surrounds Chinese dual satellite launch
China launched its 18th orbital mission of the year, lofting two technology demonstration satellites – of which there is very little detail about. Launch was via a Long March-2C launch vehicle from the LC3 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, taking place at 03:30:06UTC on June 27, 2018. According to the state media,…
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Mystery surrounds Chinese dual satellite launch
China launched its 18th orbital mission of the year, lofting two technology demonstration satellites – of which there is very little detail about. Launch was via a Long March-2C launch vehicle from the LC3 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, taking place at 03:30:06UTC on June 27, 2018. According to the state media,…
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Chinese rocket lifts off with two tech demo satellites
A Long March 2C rocket lifts off with two tech demo satellites Wednesday. Credit: CALT Two Chinese spacecraft designed to test inter-satellite network and Earth observation technologies launched Wednesday on top of a Long March 2C booster. The twin satellites lifted off at 0330 GMT Wednesday (11:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Xichang space center…
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Chinese weather satellite successfully boosted into orbit
A Long March 3A rocket launched the Fengyun 2H weather satellite Tuesday. Credit: CALT The last in an older generation of spin-stabilized Chinese weather satellites launched Tuesday toward a perch more than 22,000 miles over the equator, the start of a mission of at least four years monitoring tropical cyclones and other weather systems across…
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Long March 3A launches Fengyun-2H
China launched a new geostationary meteorological satellite using a Long March 3A (Chang Zheng 3A) rocket from the Launch Complex LC2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC). The launch of Fengyun-2H (Fengyun-2-9) took place at 13:07 UTC on June 5. Developed by the Shanghai Academy of Space Flight Technology (SAST) and China Academy of…
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Chinese data relay satellite nears post over far side of the moon
Artist’s illustration of the Queqiao spacecraft. Credit: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. A Chinese communications satellite carrying a Dutch radio astronomy instrument launched last month is expected to maneuver into position around a gravitationally-stable point beyond the moon in the coming days, ready to relay telemetry and data between Earth and the Chang’e 4…
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Earth-observers delivered to space by Long March 2D rocket
Video credit: CGTN A Chinese environmental research craft and an experimental Earth-imaging nanosatellite successfully launched Saturday aboard a Long March 2D rocket. The two satellite co-passengers lifted off at 0413 GMT (12:13 a.m. EDT) from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China’s Inner Mongolia region, riding a two-stage Long March 2D launcher away from the…
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Long March 2D lofts Gaofen-6
China launched a new remote sensing satellite called Gaofen-6 on Saturday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Launch took place at 4:13 UTC from the LC9 launch complex using a Long March-2D – Chang Zheng-2D – rocket. The new satellite is similar to the first Gaofen satellite launched on April 2013, carrying a one 2 meter…
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Queqiao takes flight: China launches Chang’e-4 relay satellite to moon’s far side
News Brief: China today launched a satellite that will serve as the communications relay for a future probe on the moon’s far side. The satellite, dubbed Queqiao (Chinese for “Magpie Bridge”), lifted off from the Xichang Launch Center in southwest China atop a Long March 4C rocket at 5:28 a.m. local time Monday (2:28 p.m.…
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Queqiao relay satellite launched ahead of Chang’e-4 lunar mission
A Chinese Long March 4C has launched the Queqiao spacecraft – a relay satellite for the upcoming Chang’e-4 lunar mission. Launch occurred from the LC-3 pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre (XSLC) at 21:25 UTC. This latest launch is part of China’s growing ambitions for lunar exploration, which has already achieved numerous successes. Chang’e-1 was launched in 2007…