China successfully launched its 22.5 metric ton Tianhe 1 (“Heavenly Harmony 1”) space station module into low Earth orbit (LEO) on a Long March 5B/Y2 (CZ-5BY2) vehicle at 0318 GMT on 29 April from the Wenchang satellite launch centre, on Hainan Island, China. The...
At 0320 GMT on 27 April China launched a Long March 6 (CZ-6) rocket carry several small satellites into sun-synchronous LEO. The majority of the payloads on-board were Earth-observation in nature and came from different Chinese companies with varying degrees of...
After a period of speculation concerning a planned Chinese launch, it lifted off at 2301 GMT, 8 April 2021 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket carried the Shiyan 6-03 (Shiyan Weixing 6-03) to a high, 1,000 km, Low Earth Orbit...
A Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in North West China to launch the Gaofen 12 (02) high resolution Earth observation satellite into orbit at 2245 GMT on 30 March. The spacecraft was placed into a circa 600 km near polar...
At 0220 GMT on 13 March 2021, a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) launch vehicle successfully launched three Yaogan 31-04 satellites (Yaogan 31-04 A,B & C) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. Officially the satellits are for measurement of the electromagnetic...
China launched a Long March 7A vehicle carrying the Shiyan 9 satellite into GEO at 1751 GMT on 11 March from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island. The Shiyan 9’s mission is believed to be imaging the Earth from Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO). The satellite...
