1. Basic information
Address: Longlou Town, Wenchang City, Hainan Province
Coordinates: 19°19′0.18″N, 109°48′0.15″E
Construction time: September 14, 2009
Completion time: mid-October 2014
Activation time: June 2016
2. Launch process
Rocket: The rocket undergoes final assembly at the Tianjin Rocket Base and is then shipped at the Tianjin Port. It passes through the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan Strait, South China Sea and other sea areas. It takes 5-7 days and sails 1,800 nautical miles to arrive at Qinglan Wharf in Wenchang City, Hainan Province. It is then transported by road to the rocket horizontal transfer preparation plant inside the launch site. After the rocket was tested in the comprehensive test hall, it entered the vertical assembly test plant for erection, docking, and comprehensive testing.
Spacecraft: transported by air to Haikou Meilan Airport, and then transported by road to the spacecraft assembly and testing plant inside the Wenchang Space Launch Site. After the spacecraft completes the final assembly test, it is transported in a vertical state to the filling and fairing assembly plant for propellant filling and fairing assembly. It is then transported vertically as a spacecraft/fairing combination to the rocket vertical assembly test plant for docking and installation with the rocket.
Rocket/spacecraft complex: Conduct a general inspection of the complex and carry out relevant transition preparations, then transport the complex vertically and integrally to the launch station, perform fueling, and ignite the launch.
3. Launch station
(1) Completed workstations
There are 2 workstations that have been built, namely:
Station 101: Launching Long March 5 and Long March 5B carrier rockets;
Station 201: Launch Long March 7, Long March 7A, and Long March 8 carrier rockets.
(2) Not yet completed
Station 301: Launching the Long March 10 carrier rocket.
4. Positioning and advantages
(1) Positioning
It undertakes space launch missions such as geosynchronous orbit satellites, large-mass polar orbit satellites, large-tonnage space stations and deep space exploration spacecraft.
(2) Advantages
Low latitude: Low latitude and close to the equator. The rotation of the earth can be used to allow the rocket to carry more payloads.
The shooting range is wide: from east to south.
Safety of the landing area: The landing areas are all in the ocean, and falling debris is less likely to cause accidents, which is conducive to the development of reusable rockets.
Can develop high-thrust rockets: Rockets can be transported by sea, and the diameter of the rocket body is not limited by railway bridge culverts, which is conducive to the development of high-thrust and large-diameter rockets.
5. Previous launch missions
serial number
emission
time
carry
Rocket
main load
track
type
Remark
1
June 25, 2016
Long March 7
Expedition No.1A
LEO
success
2
November 03, 2016
Long March 5
Practice No. 17
GTO
success
3
April 20, 2017
Long March 7
Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft
LEO
success
4
July 2, 2017
Long March 5
Practice No. 18
SSTO
fail
5
December 27, 2019
Long March 5
Practice No. 20
SSTO
success
6
March 16, 2020
Long March No. 7A
New Technology Experiment No. 6
GTO
fail
7
May 05, 2020
Long March 5B
New generation manned spacecraft test ship
LEO
success
8
July 23, 2020
Long March 5
Tianwen-1 Mars Probe
TMI
success
9
November 24, 2020
Long March 5
Chang’e 5 lunar probe
TLI
success
10
December 22, 2020
Long March 8
New Technology Experiment No. 7
SSO
success
11
March 12, 2021
Long March No. 7A
Experiment 9 satellite
GTO
success
12
April 29, 2021
Long March 5B
Tianhe core cabin
LEO/CSS
success
13
May 29, 2021
Long March 7
Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft
LEO/CSS
success
14
September 20, 2021
Long March 7
Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft
LEO/CSS
success
15
December 23, 2021
Long March No. 7A
Test No. 12 Star 01/02
GTO
success
16
February 27, 2022
Long March 8
Hainan-1 Group 01 and other 22 stars
SSO
success
17
May 10, 2022
Long March 7
Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft
LEO/CSS
success
18
July 24, 2022
Long March 5B
Wentian experimental cabin
LEO/CSS
success
19
September 13, 2022
Long March No. 7A
ChinaStar 1E
GTO
success
20
October 31, 2022
Long March 5B
Mengtian experimental cabin
LEO/CSS
success
21
November 12, 2022
Long March 7
Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft
LEO/CSS
success
22
January 9, 2023
Long March No. 7A
Practice No. 23
GTO
success
23
May 10, 2023
Long March 7
Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft
LEO/CSS
success
24
November 03, 2023
Long March No. 7A
Communications Technology Experimental Satellite No. 10
GTO
success
25
December 15, 2023
Long March 5
Remote Sensing Satellite 41
GTO
success
26
January 17, 2024
Long March 7
Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft
LEO/CSS
success
27
February 23, 2024
Long March 5
Communication Technology Experiment Satellite 11
GTO
success
28
March 20, 2024
Long March 8
Queqiao No. 2, Tiandu No. 1, Tiandu No. 2
TLI
success
29
May 03, 2024
Long March 5
Chang’e-6 lunar probe
TLI
success
30
June 29, 2024
Long March No. 7A
ChinaStar 3A
GTO
success
