Tag: China
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Chinese officials silent after Long March rocket failure
A Long March 4C rocket lifted off at 1855 GMT (2:55 p.m. EDT) Wednesday with the Gaofen 10 Earth observation satellite. Credit: Xinhua A U.S. Air Force spokesperson said Friday that the military has not detected any objects deployed in orbit by a Chinese Long March rocket launch Wednesday, but China’s official media outlets still…
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China to launch Tiangong-2 in September ahead of new crew mission
China will make another big step in its manned space program with the launch of a new orbital laboratory and a new manned space mission in the next two months. The launch of the Tiangong-2 space station is expected to take place on September 15 via the use of a Chang Zheng (Long March) 2F/T2 rocket.…
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Long March 4C apparently fails during Gaofen-10 launch
China has unofficially suffered its first failure of the year during the attempt to launch the Gaofen-10 remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday. Launching from the LC9 Launch Complex at around 18:53 UTC, the Long March-4C (Chang Zheng-4C) failied for reasons not yet known. Chinese Failure: The loss of the…
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Chinese satellite to begin quantum communications experiments
A Long March 2D carrying the Quantum Science Satellite lifted off at 1740 GMT (1:40 p.m. EDT) Monday. The launch from Jiuquan occurred at 1:40 a.m. Tuesday, Beijing time. Credit: Xinhua China launched a pioneering satellite mission Monday to prove the viability of quantum communications from space, an innovation that could led to a worldwide…
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Radar remote sensing satellite launched by China
A Long March 4C rocket lifted off at 2255 GMT (6:55 p.m. EDT) Tuesday with the Gaofen 3 satellite. Credit: SASTIND A Long March 4C rocket took off from northern China on Tuesday and deployed a radar imaging satellite into orbit about 460 miles above Earth to survey the oceans, crops and resources, and natural…
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Long March 4C launches Gaofen-3 Earth Observation Satellite
The long awaited launch of Gaofen-3 took place on Tuesday, lofted via the Chinese Long March-4C (Chang Zheng-4C) launch vehicle. The rocket, launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center’s LC9 Launch Complex at 22:55 UTC, successfully orbited the new addition to the Gaofen fleet of remote sensing satellites. Chinese Launch: Designed by CAST (China Academy…
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China’s first mobile telecom satellite successfully launched
A Long March 3B rocket took off at 1622 GMT (12:22 p.m. EDT) Friday with the Tiantong 1 satellite. Credit: Xinhua China sent a mobile communications satellite into orbit Friday on top of a Long March 3B rocket, marking the country’s 10th launch of 2016 as technicians gear up for the next flight of Chinese…
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Chinese Long March 3B launches Tiantong-1 satellite
China launched a communications satellite on Friday that supposedly will be used for mobile communications. The launch of the first Tiantong-1 satellite took place at 16:22 UTC on August 5 using a Long March-3B/G2 (Chang Zheng-3B/G2) from the LC3 Launch Complex at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Chinese Launch: Information about the new satellite is…
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China’s Yutu rover dies on the moon
A camera aboard the Chang’e 3 lander captured this view of the Yutu rover in December 2013. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences/NAOC/Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration A Chinese rover sent to the moon in 2013 has stopped operating, officials announced Wednesday, ending a groundbreaking 31-month mission that made discoveries in lunar…
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Re-entering Chinese rocket stage streaks across Western U.S.
Full video of meteor-like event @BadAstronomer pic.twitter.com/q37UzRZKpa — Matt Holt (@mholt6) July 28, 2016 A flaming fragment of space junk from China’s newest satellite launcher blazed through Earth’s atmosphere over the Western United States late Wednesday. Darting across the skies of California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Colorado, the object disintegrated into numerous chunks before disappearing. The…