Tag: Jiuquan
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China launches two more Long March rockets; another possible before end of year
A Long March 11 rocket lifts off Dec. 21 (Dec. 22 Chinese time). Credit: Xinhua China’s space program is sprinting toward the end of the year by extending the country’s record-breaking launch rate, with two more space missions lifting off in the last week carrying a pathfinder for a planned constellation of Internet satellites and…
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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’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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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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LandSpace falls short of orbit in private Chinese launch attempt
LandSpace’s Zhuque 1 rocket lifts off Saturday. Credit: LandSpace A solid-fueled satellite launcher backed by a Chinese start-up named LandSpace fired away from the Jiuquan space center in the Gobi Desert Saturday on its inaugural flight, but the rocket failed to place its microsatellite payload into orbit. The three-stage Zhuque 1 rocket lifted off at…
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Two satellites with secretive missions launched by China
A Long March 2C rocket lifted off Tuesday with two Yaogan 32 military satellites. Credit: Xinhua Two Chinese Yaogan military reconnaissance satellites launched this week, riding a Long March 2C booster into orbit on a mission that inaugurated the use of a new restartable upper stage to increase the rocket’s carrying capacity. The two Yaogan…
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Chinese solid-fueled launcher puts smallsat in orbit
A Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched Saturday from the Jiuquan space center in northwestern China. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Kuaizhou 1A rocket took off Saturday under the auspices of the commercial launch provider Exspace and successfully deployed a tech demo satellite into orbit, state media reported. The solid-fueled rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan space base…
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China successfully launches two satellites for Pakistan
A Chinese Long March 2C rocket lifts off Monday from the Jiuquan space center. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 2C rocket launched Monday with two satellites for Pakistan’s national space agency, extending a partnership between the two countries’ space programs. The Long March 2C booster lifted off at 0356 GMT Monday (11:56 p.m. EDT…
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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 11 rocket delivers five commercial satellites to orbit
A Long March 11 rocket lifts off Thursday from the Jiuquan launch base. Credit: CALT Five commercial Chinese satellites carrying video and hyperspectral imaging sensors took off Thursday aboard a Long March 11 booster. The five small satellites are part of a larger Earth-imaging fleet under development by Zhuhai Orbita Aerospace Science and Technology Co.…