Tag: Jiuquan
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China launches secret military spy payload
A Long March 4C rocket took off Sunday with the Yaogan 33 satellite. Credit: Xinhua A secret Chinese military payload, believed to be a surveillance satellite, successfully flew into space Sunday aboard a Long March 4C rocket on China’s 39th and final scheduled orbital launch attempt of the year. The military satellite and a smaller…
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New Chinese rocket successful in debut launch
Galactic Energy’s Ceres 1 rocket lifts off from the Jiuquan launch base in northwestern China on Saturday. Credit: Xinhua A new four-stage rocket operated by the Chinese launch company Galactic Energy succeeded on its inaugural flight Saturday, delivering a data relay microsatellite to an orbit 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth. The Ceres 1 rocket…
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China launches Haiyang oceanography satellite
A Long March 4B rocket lifts off Sept. 21 from the Jiuquan launch base in northwestern China. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese oceanography satellite designed to measure wave height and winds launched Monday aboard a Long March 4B rocket equipped with grid fins to help control the first stage’s descent back to Earth, an improvement aimed…
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Chinese smallsat launcher fails
A Kuaizhou 1A rocket takes off Saturday from the Jiuquan launch base. Credit: CASIC A Chinese small satellite launcher failed after liftoff Saturday, destroying a commercial Earth-imaging payload before it could enter orbit. The Kuaizhou 1A rocket carrying the Jilin 1 Gaofen 02C optical remote sensing satellite lifted off from the Jiuquan space base in…
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China tests experimental reusable spacecraft shrouded in mystery
File photo of a previous Long March 2F launch. Credit: Xinhua A mysterious space vehicle described by Chinese state media as an experimental reusable spacecraft completed a two-day flight in low Earth orbit Sunday. The spacecraft took off on top of a Long March 2F rocket Friday from the Jiuquan launch base in the Gobi…
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Earth observation and research satellites ride Chinese rocket into orbit
China launches a Long March 2D rocket Thursday from the Jiuquan space base. Credit: Xinhua China sent an Earth observation satellite and a university-built research payload into orbit Thursday aboard a Long March 2D rocket. The Long March 2D booster launched from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT;…
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New Chinese satellite launcher fails on first flight
This frame from a video of the Kuaizhou 11 launch shows the rocket lifting off from the Jiuquan launch base in northwestern China. Credit: CASIC/CCTV The first flight of the new Chinese Kuaizhou 11 solid-fueled rocket failed to place two small satellites into orbit Friday, and Chinese state media said the cause of the malfunction…
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Chinese launches loft satellites to study space environment and observe Earth
A Long March 4B rocket takes off from the Taiyuan space center Friday. Credit: Xinhua China launched a Long March 2D rocket Saturday with a satellite Chinese officials claimed will study the space environment and conduct technology demonstrations, less than two days after a Long March 4B rocket took off from a different launch site…
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Two Chinese launches deploy satellites for Earth-imaging, tech demonstrations
The payload fairing of a Long March 11 rocket is integrated with the rest of the launch vehicle before a May 29 mission that placed two small satellites into orbit. Credit: China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology Two launches of Chinese rockets Friday and Sunday successfully placed Earth-imaging and technology demonstration satellites into orbit. The two…
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First two smallsats launched for Chinese data relay constellation
A Kuaizhou 1A rocket takes off from the Jiuquan space base Tuesday. Credit: Weibo A Chinese Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched Tuesday with the first two spacecraft for China’s planned 80-satellite Xingyun communications and data relay constellation. The solid-fueled launcher fired away from a road-mobile transported at 0116 GMT Tuesday (9:16 p.m. EDT Monday) from the …