At 0320 GMT on 20 July, a Kuaizhou-1A rocket lifted-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, North-western China, carrying four satellites in to LEO. The satellites are believed to be GNSS occultation units for meteorological purposes for Chinese entity Xiyong...
While the industry trend is to move to “methalox” – liquid methane/liquid natural gas and liquid oxygen (LOX) as propellants – no rocket using this combination had achieved orbit…until now. The Chinese privately run company Landspace has successfully launched its...
At least one experimental communications satellite was reportedly launched into a circular 1100 km orbit inclined at 86.5 degrees inclination at 1100 GMT on 9 July 2023 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in North West China by a CALT-operated Long March 2C/3/YZ-1S...
Launching at 0318 GMT on 20 June a Chinese Long March 6 (CZ-6) rocket carried Shiyan-25 into LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. Like many of its Shiyan-series siblings this satellite is only described as an...
A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket, built by SAST, carried 41 Jilin-1 satellites into LEO from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, after lifting off at 0530 GMT on 15 June. The event marked the most satellites launched at one time by a Chinese rocket. Onboard...
At 0410 GMT on 7 June 2023, the second launch of the Lijian-1 (Kinetica-1) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China reportedly put 26 satellites into orbit. This rocket built by CAS Space (partially owned by the Chinese Academy of...
