Tag: China
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China lofts earthquake research craft with cluster of smaller satellites
A Long March 2D rocket lifted off Friday with seven satellites. Credit: Xinhua/Wang Jiangbo A Chinese Long March 2D rocket successfully delivered seven satellites into a 300-mile-high (500-kilometer) orbit Friday, boosting international missions to measure seismic signals that could help predict future earthquakes, take detailed imagery of planet Earth and test compact camera, propulsion and…
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Long March 2D launches Zhangheng-1 Earthquake investigator
A Long March 2D has conducted the sixth Chinese launch of 2018, with the lofting of the Zhangheng-1 spacecraft, a new research satellite for the observation of ionospheric precursors of earthquakes. The launch took place at 07:51 UTC on Friday from the 94 Launch Platform at the LC43 Launch Complex from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch…
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China launches fourth trio of Yaogan military satellites since September
A Long March 2C rocket lifted off Thursday, Jan. 25, from the Xichang space center. Credit: Xinhua A fourth trio of Chinese Yaogan military satellites with secret missions launched Thursday aboard a Long March 2C rocket from the Xichang space base in China’s Sichuan province. The spacecraft join nine others launched into similar 370-mile-high (600-kilometer)…
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Long March 2C launches Yaogan Weixing-30 Group-4
China launched the fourth group of triplet satellites for the Chuangxin-5 (CX-5) constellation. Launched under the name Yaogan Weixing-30 Group-4, the three satellites were orbited by a Long March-2C launch vehicle from the LC3 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Launch took place at 05:39 UTC. Like the previous missions on the series,…
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Kepler Communications’ first satellite expands ‘Internet of Things’ to space
News Brief: Toronto-based Kepler Communications says its first Ku-band telecommunications satellite is in working order after a Jan. 19 launch from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Kipp nanosatellite, which is about the size of a loaf of bread, was one of six spacecraft delivered to orbit by a Long March 11 rocket. It’s designed…
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Testbed for Canadian data relay network successfully launched from China
A Long March 11 rocket lifted off at 0412 GMT Friday (11:12 p.m. EST Thursday) with a pathfinder satellite for Kepler Communications and five Chinese payloads. Credit: Kepler Communications A nanosatellite built in Scotland for Kepler Communications, a Toronto company planning a 140-satellite global data relay network, rode to orbit Friday with five Chinese satellites…
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Long March 11 in multiple satellite launch
China conducted its fourth orbital launch of 2018 using a Long March 11 rocket – this time carrying six small satellites into orbit. The launch took place from a mobile launch platform at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 04:12 UTC on Friday. Onboard the LM-11 rocket were two Jilin commercial remote sensing satellites for…
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Sharp-eyed surveillance satellite launched by China
A Long March 2D rocket lifted off Saturday from the Jiuquan space center in northwest China. Credit: Xinhua The third in a new series of Chinese high-resolution mapping satellites lifted off Saturday aboard a Long March 2D rocket, joining two other craft launched into similar orbits in December. Chinese officials have released no details about…
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Chinese navigation network expanded with pair of new Beidou satellites
A Long March 3B rocket launched from the Xichang space center at 2318 GMT (6:18 p.m. EST) on Jan. 11. Credit: Xinhua Two satellites destined to join China’s Beidou network successfully launched Thursday aboard a Long March 3B rocket, the first two of up to 18 new Chinese navigation craft scheduled for deployment this year.…
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Long March 2D launches latest Ludikancha Weixing satellite
The third Chinese launch in January took place on Saturday at 07:10 UTC with a Long March-2D launch vehicle orbiting a new remote sensing satellite called Ludikancha Weixing-3. The launch took from the 603 Launch Platform at the LC43 Launch Complex from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC). As per usual for the Chinese media,…