Tag: Long March
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Spy satellite launched to serve Chinese government
The Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 0712 GMT (2:12 a.m. EST) Thursday from the Jiuquan space base in northwest China. Credit: Xinhua A Long March 2D rocket blasted off from a remote space base in northwest China on Thursday and climbed into orbit with a clandestine satellite to collect intelligence for the Chinese…
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Long March 2D lofts Yaogan Weixing-24 for China
The Chinese have launched yet another spy satellite, this time via a Long March 2D rocket. The launch of Yaogan Weixing-24 “remote sensing” satellite comes just six days after they orbited the Yaogan-23 spacecraft. This latest launch occurred at 0712UTC on Thursday, lifting off from the 603 Launch Pad of the LC43 Launch Complex at…
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Chinese military satellite launched by Long March rocket
The Long March 2C rocket lifts off at 2:53 a.m. Beijing time Saturday (1853 GMT Friday) from the Taiyuan launch center. Credit: Xinhua China launched a Long March rocket last week with a satellite Western analysts believe will conduct all-weather global radar surveillance for the Chinese military. The Long March 2C rocket lifted off at…
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China launches third space mission in a week
A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 0659 GMT (2:59 a.m. EDT; 2:59 p.m. Beijing time) Monday with a Chinese military satellite. Credit: Xinhua China put an experimental Shijian military satellite into orbit Monday on top of a Long March rocket, marking the third Chinese space launch in a week. The Shijian 11-08 spacecraft…
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Chinese Long March 2C launches final Shijian-11 satellite
The Chinese have launched what appears to be the final satellite of the Shijian-11 series. Shijian 11-08 was launched at 06:59UTC on October 27, 2014, using a Long March-2C launch vehicle. The launch took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center’s LC43/603 launch complex. Chinese Launch: Information about SJ-11-08 came after the launch of the…
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China launches lunar sample return test mission
The Chinese have launched the third phase of its lunar exploration program on Thursday. Launch of the Chang’e-5-T1 mission took place at 1800UTC, utilizing a Long March-3C/G2 launch vehicle from the LC2 launch complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan Province. The mission is aimed at testing the technologies that are vital for the…
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Chinese probe launched on round-trip flight to the moon
A Chinese Long March 3C rocket lifted off at 1800 GMT (2 p.m. EDT; 2 a.m. Beijing time). Credit: Xinhua China launched a demonstrator probe Thursday on a round-trip flight around the moon to test out a heat shield and landing capsule planned for use on a lunar sample return mission in 2017. The unmanned…
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China lofts Yaogan-22 via Long March 4C rocket
The Chinese have launched another new satellite in the military’s Yaogan Weixing series via the use of a Long March-4C (Chang Zheng-4C) rocket. The mission began with lift off at 06:31 UTC on Monday from the LC901 launch platform of the LC9 launch complex at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Chinese Launch: Chinese media is referring to…
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China puts government surveillance satellite in orbit
The Yaogan 22 satellite lifted off on a Long March 4C rocket at 2:31 p.m. Beijing time Monday. Credit: Xinhua China sent a reconnaissance satellite into orbit Monday from the Taiyuan space center, expanding the country’s network of intelligence-gathering spacecraft. The Yaogan 22 satellite lifted off at 0631 GMT (2:31 a.m. EDT) Monday aboard a…
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China launches another secretive Shijian-11 mission
The Chinese have orbited a new satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Sunday. Utilizing their Long March 2C (Chang Zheng 2C) launch vehicle, the mission involved another of the secretive Shijian-11 (SJ-11) series of “experimental satellites”. Launch took place at 05:13 UTC according to Chinese reports. Chinese Launch: This is the seventh in…