Tag: Long March
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Video: Long March 5 rocket lifts off on maiden flight
China debuted its new Long March 5 rocket Thursday with a successful nighttime blastoff on top of 2.4 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust from the country’s new Hainan Island spaceport. Powered by 10 engines, the 187-foot-tall (57-meter) rocket took off at 1243 GMT (8:43 a.m. EDT; 8:43 p.m. Beijing time) and sent an experimental satellite…
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China launches Long March 5, one of the world’s most powerful rockets
The Long March 5 rocket takes off at 1243 GMT (8:43 a.m. EDT) on Thursday. Credit: Xinhua China’s heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket fired into space on a successful inaugural flight Thursday, debuting a brand new launcher that can carry twice the payload of any other Chinese booster and setting a keystone for the country’s…
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Long March 5 heavy-lifter ready to join China’s rocket inventory
China is ready to debut a heavy-lifting rocket rivaling the biggest boosters in the world Thursday, paving the way for a backlog of missions to loft massive space station modules, send deep space probes to the moon and Mars, and perhaps deploy commercial satellites. The Long March 5 rocket is bigger than anything else in…
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China conducts Long March 5 maiden launch
China has successfully conducted the maiden launch of its Long March-5 (Chang Zheng-5) rocket on Thursday, after years of intense development to create a launch vehicle capable of orbiting heavy payload to geosynchronous and low Earth orbit. The launch occurred at 12:43 UTC on Thursday after several holds. Long March 5 Debut: The launch of…
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Chinese astronauts launch on month-long space mission
The Shenzhou 11 spacecraft lifted off at 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT) Sunday, or 7:30 a.m. Beijing time Monday. Credit: Xinhua Two Chinese military pilots rode a Long March 2F rocket into orbit Sunday, heading for the Tiangong 2 research lab to conduct experiments and practice procedures to be used on China’s future space station.…
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Chinese spacecraft poised for launch with two astronauts
Astronauts Jing Haipeng (left) and Chen Dong (right) will fly in space for 33 days aboard Shenzhou 11. They were introduced to the media early Sunday. Credit: Xinhua China is gearing up to launch two astronauts on a month-long expedition to the country’s new orbiting space lab module Sunday. Officials lifted a news blackout on…
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Chinese duo launched to begin Shenzhou-11 mission
Following weeks of secrecy, China has launched its sixth crewed space mission on Sunday. The launch of Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong on Shenzhou-11 took place at 23:30 UTC using the Long March 2F/G (Y11) rocket, with liftoff taking place from Pad 921 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center’s LC43 Launch Complex. Chinese Crew Launch: The…
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Key events during Shenzhou 11’s ascent to orbit
It will take less than 10 minutes for a Long March 2F rocket to send two astronauts inside the Shenzhou 11 space capsule on course toward a docking with China’s Tiangong 2 space lab. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Jiuquan space center in northwestern China’s Inner Mongolia territory at…
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Live coverage: Chinese space capsule docks with Tiangong 2
Live coverage of the flight of China’s Shenzhou 11 mission with two astronauts visiting the Tiangong 2 space lab. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. China’s CCTV English news channel will broadcast major events during Shenzhou 11.
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China launches Tiangong-2 orbital module
China took another step on its long march to a permanent orbital outpost with the launch of the Tiangong-2 orbital module from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The launch, conducted by a Long March 2F – took place at 14:04 UTC from the 921 Launch Pad of the LC43 Launch Complex. The new orbital outpost…