Cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 3 successfully undocked from the Chinese Space Station’s forward port on 17 July 2022 at 0259 GMT. According to Chinese space authorities, Tianzhou 3 “will re-enter under ground control at an opportune time”. The re-supply...
China launched a Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China at 2257 GMT on 15 July 2022. The vehicle carried SuperView Neo 2-01 and 2-02 (aka Siwei Gaojing 3 and 4), a pair of Earth observation satellites, to a Sun-Synchronous low...
China successfully launched Tianlian 2-03, its data relay communications satellite, at 1630 GMT on 12 July. The satellite was onboard the Long March 3B/E (CZ-3B/E) rocket, which was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, China. Tianlian 2-03 is the seventh...
At 1546 GMT, 27 June, a Chinese Long March-4C (CZ-4C) rocket carried the Gaofen 12-03 (12C) satellite into low Earth orbit (LEO). The mission lifted-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite is equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload...
A Kuaizhou-1A small solid rocket launch vehicle was launched from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert, Northern China, at 0208 GMT on 22 June, carrying the Tianxing-1 satellite into orbit. It marks a successful return to operations after a second stage launch...
The Chinese successfully launched a Long March 2F/G (CZ-2F/G) launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China at 0244 GMT on 5 June 2022. The vehicle was carrying Shenzhou 14, a crewed spaceflight to the Tiangong space station. Three astronauts (dubbed...