Tag: Yaogan
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China launches four satellites on Long March 2C rocket
A Long March 2C rocket lifts off Thursday with four Chinese satellites. Credit: Xinhua Three Chinese military satellites and a civilian data relay payload launched Thursday aboard a Long March 2C rocket. The four spacecraft rocketed into a 370-mile-high (600-kilometer) orbit from the Xichang launch base, situated in a mountainous part of Sichuan province in…
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China launches spy satellite triplet for third time this year
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off Saturday with three Yaogan 31 military satellites. Credit: Xinhua Three Chinese military satellites launched Saturday aboard a Long March 4C rocket, joining six others China has sent into orbit since the start of the year on ocean surveillance missions. The three Yaogan 31-series satellites took off at 0219…
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Another trio of Chinese military satellites successfully deployed
A Long March 4C rocket takes off Feb. 24 with another trio of Yaogan 31 military satellites. Credit: Xinhua Weeks after the launch of an earlier trio of Chinese military satellites, another spacecraft triplet successfully took off Feb. 24 aboard a Long March 4C rocket on a clandestine mission that analysts believe may involve spying…
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China launches military spy satellite trio into orbit
A Chinese Long March 4C rocked launched Friday with three Yaogan 31 military surveillance satellites. Credit: Xinhua China launched three Yaogan military satellites Friday on a Long March 4C rocket, adding to a fleet of spacecraft independent analysts believe are designed to spy on naval forces. The three Yaogan 31-series satellites lifted off aboard a…
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China launches new Yaogan-30 group of military satellites
China launched a new group of triplet satellites for the Chuangxin-5 (CX-5) constellation on Monday. Launched under the name Yaogan Weixing-30 Group-7, the three satellites were orbited by a Chang Zheng-2C launch vehicle from the LC-3 Launch Complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, with launch taking place at 15:19 UTC. Like the previous missions…
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China launches three military satellites
A Long March 2C rocket climbs into the sky with three Yaogan 30 satellites Monday. Credit: CCTV Three Chinese military satellites with undisclosed missions rocketed into a 370-mile-high (600-kilometer) orbit Tuesday on a Long March 2C launcher. The classified payloads lifted off at 0343 GMT Tuesday (11:43 p.m. EDT Monday) from the Xichang space center…
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China launches three military satellites, tests new rocket steering fins
A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 0357 GMT Friday (11:57 p.m. EDT Thursday) with three Yaogan 30 satellites for the Chinese military. The grid fins are visible on the gray section of the rocket at the top of the first stage. Credit: Xinhua China launched a Long March 2C rocket Friday with three…
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Chinese state media confirms Long March launch failure
File photo of a previous Long March 4C launch from the Taiyuan space base. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 4C rocket failed to place its top secret military payload into orbit Wednesday after a launch from the Taiyuan space base southwest of Beijing, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The three-stage rocket lifted…
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Two satellites with secretive missions launched by China
A Long March 2C rocket lifted off Tuesday with two Yaogan 32 military satellites. Credit: Xinhua Two Chinese Yaogan military reconnaissance satellites launched this week, riding a Long March 2C booster into orbit on a mission that inaugurated the use of a new restartable upper stage to increase the rocket’s carrying capacity. The two Yaogan…
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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…