China may be having a worrying border dispute with India, but it is still launching satellites. China successfully launched the Gaofen 9-3 imaging satellite, Pixing 3A technology test sat and HEAD 1-5 AIS ship tracking satellite at 0719 GMT on 17 June on a Long March...
The Hai Yang 1D (HY-1D) ocean monitoring satellite was successfully launched by a Long March 2C (CZ-2C). The satellite is designed to monitor ocean temperatures etc. The launch took place from its launch pad in the Taiyuan Space Centre in the Shanxi province of China...
On 31 May 2020, China completed the launch of a sub-meter Earth imaging satellite, plus co-payload. The satellites were orbited by an Long March 2D/2, medium launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The primary payload was the Gaofen-9...
China has very much got its launch programme underway again after delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak and launch vehicle failures. The latest launch was of a Long March 11 launch vehicle which used the Xichang launch site for the first time. The launch, which...
China’s Kuaizhou 1A (KZ-1A)/Feitian 1 launch vehicle successfully launched the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Laser communications test satellites Xingyun 2-1 and Xingyun 2-2 into a Sun Synchronous low Earth orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0116...
China successfully launched its Next Generation Crew Spacecraft – Test Ship (XZF-SC Xinyidai Zairen Feichuan – Shiyan Chuan) on three-day test mission in unmanned condition on a Long March 5B from the Wenchang Sat Launch Centre, Hainan Island, at 1000 GMT on 5 May....
