Tag: Long March 4C
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Chinese satellite successfully launched to monitor environment
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off Tuesday from the Taiyuan space base. Credit: Xinhua China launched a civilian-operated Earth-observing satellite Tuesday to survey global land and water resources, air pollutants, greenhouse gases and other environmental parameters. The Gaofen 5 environmental monitoring satellite launched at 1828 GMT (2:28 p.m. EDT) Tuesday aboard a Long March…
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Chinese Long March 4C rocket deploys four satellites in orbit
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off Tuesday with four satellites. Credit: Xinhua Three Chinese military surveillance spacecraft and an experimental nanosatellite rode a Long March 4C rocket into orbit Tuesday. The Long March 4C rocket took off at 0425 GMT (12:25 a.m. EDT; 12:25 p.m. Beijing time) from the Jiuquan space center located in…
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Chinese weather satellite launched into polar orbit
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan space center Tuesday with the Fengyun 3D weather satellite. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 4C rocket launched Tuesday with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory named Fengyun 3D, replacing an aging satellite for the China Meteorological Administration. The Fengyun 3D satellite lifted off at 1835…
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Chinese weather satellite launched into polar orbit
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan space center Tuesday with the Fengyun 3D weather satellite. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 4C rocket launched Tuesday with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory named Fengyun 3D, replacing an aging satellite for the China Meteorological Administration. The Fengyun 3D satellite lifted off at 1835…
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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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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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Radar spy satellite launched by China
China’s Yaogan 29 satellite lifted off at 2124 GMT (4:24 p.m. EST) Thursday, or 5:24 a.m. Beijing time Friday. Credit: Xinhua China launched its latest military spy satellite Thursday with the successful deployment of the Yaogan 29 payload in polar orbit, likely adding a new radar reconnaissance craft to the country’s space fleet. The Yaogan…
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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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Trio of ocean surveillance satellites launched by China
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off from the Jiuquan satellite launching center at 1933 GMT (2:33 p.m. EST) on Wednesday. Credit: Xinhua A package of small satellites that will likely track global naval activity lifted off aboard a Chinese Long March 4C rocket on Wednesday. Chinese authorities made no announcement of the launch ahead…