Tag: China
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China conducts two space launches in short span
A Long March 2D rocket launched Monday with the Gaofen 9 remote sensing satellite. Credit: Xinhua Two space launches from China in a 37-hour span have placed an experimental communications satellite and a sharp-eyed Earth-viewing craft into orbit, according to Chinese state media reports. Neither launch was officially announced ahead of time by Chinese authorities.…
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China conducts two space launches in short span
A Long March 2D rocket launched Monday with the Gaofen 9 remote sensing satellite. Credit: Xinhua Two space launches from China in a 37-hour span have placed an experimental communications satellite and a sharp-eyed Earth-viewing craft into orbit, according to Chinese state media reports. Neither launch was officially announced ahead of time by Chinese authorities.…
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Chinese spy payload fired into orbit
The Long March 4C rocket and Yaogan 27 satellite lifted off at 0231 GMT Thursday (10:31 p.m. EDT Wednesday). Credit: Xinhua China sent the next in a series of military-operated spy satellites into orbit Thursday aboard a Long March 4C rocket in an unannounced launch from the country’s northeastern space center. Fueled by a mixture…
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Two navigation satellites launched by China
A Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang space center at 1229 GMT (8:29 a.m. EDT) Saturday with two Beidou navigation satellites. Credit: Xinhua Two Chinese satellites lifted off Saturday on top of a Long March 3B rocket and rode into orbit nearly 14,000 miles above Earth to expand the country’s space-based navigation…
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Chinese Long March 3B launches dual Beidou mission
China launched a new pair of navigation satellites in the move to advance the completion of the Phase III of its Beidou program. The launch took place at 12:29 UTC from the LC launch comple of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, using for the first time the combination of the Long March-3B rocket with the…
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China sends up remote sensing satellite
The Gaofen 8 satellite lifted off at 0622 GMT (2:22 a.m. EDT; 2:22 p.m. Beijing time) Friday. Credit: Xinhua China launched a high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite Friday on top of a Long March 4B rocket, according to state media reports. The Gaofen 8 satellite lifted off at 0622 GMT (2:22 a.m. EDT) from the…
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Chinese Long March 4B conducts surprise Gaofen-8 launch
The Chinese have conducted another surprise launch on Friday with the launch of an Earth Observation System satellite called Gaofen-8. The launch took place at 06:22 UTC via the use of a Long March-4B rocket that set sail from the LC9 launch complex at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Chinese Launch: There is very little…
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ESA reveals candidates for new space science missions
Earth’s protective barrier – the magnetosphere – shields it from some of the effects of the supersonic solar wind. Studying the interaction between this wind and the magnetosphere is important for our understanding of space weather. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency revealed plans Thursday to build and launch a joint space weather research satellite…
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Long March 3C in secretive launch with new Upper Stage
The Chinese opened their 2015 campaign with the launch of a Long March 3C with the first of a new generation of navigation satellites. The launch of what is now being called BDS I 1-S took place at 13:52 UTC from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, utilizing the debut use of the new Expedition-1 (Yuanzheng-1)…
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Europe, China issue call for joint science mission
One of two Double Star spacecraft developed for a joint ESA-China science mission is seen in a pre-launch sun illumination test in 2004. Credit: CNSA/CAST/CSSAR Europe and China are planning a joint robotic space mission for launch in 2021, and officials are asking scientists to propose projects aimed at research in astronomy, exploring the solar…