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  • China launches mobile telecom satellite

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    A Long March 3B rocket takes off with the Tiantong 1-02 communications satellite. Credit: Xinhua A new Chinese mobile communications satellite launched Thursday on top of a Long March 3B rocket, joining a similar spacecraft launched four years ago to provide voice and data services to users on the go. The Tiantong 1-02 mobile communications…

  • Ten Satellogic Earth-imaging satellites successfully launched

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    A Long March 6 rocket lifts off Friday from the Taiyuan space center in northeastern China. Credit: Xinhua Ten small high-resolution observation satellites for Satellogic — an Argentine company in the midst of deploying a fleet of Earth-imaging spacecraft — successfully launched Friday on a Chinese Long March 6 rocket. Three small Chinese secondary accompanied…

  • China launches three military spy satellites

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    A Long March 2C rocket takes off Monday from the Xichang launch base in China. Credit: Xinhua Three mysterious payloads widely believed to be signals intelligence satellites for the Chinese military rocketed into orbit on top of a Long March 2C booster Monday from a launch base in southwestern China. The three Yaogan 30-type satellites…

  • China launches geosynchronous Earth observation satellite

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    A Long March 3B rocket lifts off Sunday with the Gaofen 13 Earth observation satellite. Credit: CALT China successfully launched a Gaofen optical observation satellite Sunday toward a perch more than 22,000 miles over the equator, where it will use an Earth-facing telescope to collect remote sensing images, Chinese state media said. The Gaofen 13…

  • Long March 3B lofts Gaofen-13

    Long March 3B lofts Gaofen-13

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    China launched a new geostationary remote sensing satellite from the renovated Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Sunday. A Long March-3B/G3 (Y3) – Chang Zheng-3B/G3 – rocket orbited the Gaofen-13 satellite, lifting off from the LC2 pad at 16:57 UTC. The new satellite, possibly an improved version of the CAST developed Gaofen-4 orbited on December 28,…

  • China launches environmental monitoring satellites

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    A Long March 4B rocket lifts off Sunday with two Chinese environmental monitoring satellites. Credit: Xinhua Without any public warning, a Chinese Long March 4B rocket lifted off Sunday with two “environmental monitoring satellites” that the country’s state media said will replace a pair of spacecraft launched in 2008 that collected data to assist in a…

  • Suprise Chinese launch lofts Huanjing duo

    Suprise Chinese launch lofts Huanjing duo

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    In a surprise launch, China orbited two environmental and disaster management satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on early Sunday. Huanjing-2A (HJ-2A) and Huanjing-2B (HJ-2B) were launched from the LC9 Launch Complex at 03:23UTC using the Long March-4B – Chang Zheng-4B – (Y42) rocket. Developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), the…

  • China launches Haiyang oceanography satellite

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    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…

  • China tests experimental reusable spacecraft shrouded in mystery

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    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…

  • China launches another Gaofen Earth observation satellite

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    A new optical Earth observation satellite launched by China Monday joins the country’s remote sensing network for land surveys, urban planning, and agriculture monitoring. The Gaofen 11-02 remote sensing satellite lifted off at 0557 GMT (1:57 a.m. EDT) Monday from the Taiyuan launch base in northern China aboard a Long March 4B rocket. The 154-foot-tall…