After a year-long hiatus following a launch failure a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rocket has carried out an orbital mission. The launch took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 0619 GMT, 27 September, and placed a single satellite into LEO. The...
A Tianzhou cargo freighter launched by China has docked with its space station on the same day. The mission lifted-off at 0710 GMT, propelled into orbit by a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket. The autonomous freighter, called Tianzhou-3, then conducted an automatic docking...
The Shenzhou 12 craft with Taikonauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo undocked from the Chinese Space Station (CSS) – also known as Tiangong – on 16 September at 0056 GMT, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office. The space station had been...
China successfully launched a Long March 3B/G2 (CZ-3B/G2) launch vehicle at 1150 GMT on 9 September from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China. It was carrying the Chinasat 9B (Zhongxing 9B) Civil communications satellite. The satellite which will eventually...
At 0301 GMT a Long March 4C carrying the Gaofen 5-02 satellite was launched successfully from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Northern China. The satellite is for Earth imaging and remote sensing satellite and is thought to be for civilian use.
A Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying a experimental communications technology test satellite into a Geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). Occurring at 1541 GMT on 24 August, this mission was roughly 4.5...
