A Long March 7A (CZ-7A) rocket launched a pair of Shiyan 12 satellies, Shiyan 12-01 and Shiyan 12-02 on a mission dubbed HOTS (High Orbit Test Satellite) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The launch occurred from the Wenchang satellite launch centre, Hainan Island...
According to Space News (Andrew Jones) a new planned Chinese optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite constellation dubbed 36 Tiangan has been announced which is designed to help disaster prevention, early warning and natural resource...
Russia launched a Proton M/Briz M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1207 GMT on 13 December, but not everything went to plan. The launch vehicle was carrying the Express AMU-3 (Ekspress-AMU 3) and Express AMU-7 (Ekspress-AMU 7)...
China successfully launched a Long March 4B vehicle at 0011 GMT on 10 December 2021 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China. The launch vehicle was carrying the Shi Jian 6-05A and 6-05B satellites. While the satellites were announced as officially being used...
Launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, the second flight of the Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) rocket has placed five payloads into LEO. Lifting off at at 0412 GMT, 7 December the rocket carried the satellites to a near 500 km, sun-synchronous orbit....
China has successfully launched the Chinasat 1D (aka Zhongxing 1D aka Feng Huo 2D) communications satellite on a Long March 3B-G3 (CZ-3B-G3) launch vehicle from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 1640 GMT on 26 November. While never admitting its military...
