For the seventh time this year the Chinese have conducted a launch in service of their BeiDou satellite navigation constellation. This launch took place on 16 December 2019, at 0722 GMT, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southwestern China. The mission saw a...
China’s launch industry had a filip this month when it successfully launched two Kuaizhou 1A (KZ-1A) (aka Feitian 1) launch vehicles on “commercial” launches from the same launch site in a single day. The “commercial” Exspace company (a...
China has launched the Gaofen 12 syntheric aperture radar (SAR) satellite using a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket at 2352 GMT on 27 November 2019. The spacecraft launch occurred from Taiyuan launch site. According to US Space Command the spacecraft is in 595 x 599 km x...
A Long March 3B/YZ-1 (CZ-3B/YZ-1) rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, South-western China, on 23 November, at 00.55 GMT. The mission is to aid the Chinese satellite navigation system, Beidou – Compass in English. On board the rocket were two...
A launch occurred at 1000 GMT, 17 November 2019, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, North China. This mission saw the Kuaizhou-1A light-launcher carrying two small satellites built by the Small Satellite Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). On-board...
China’s EXPACE privateer launch company launched Kuaizhou-1A launch vehicle at about 0340 GMT on 13 November from the Jiuquan launch site in China. The launch reportedly placed the 230 kg Jilin-1 Gaofen 02A imaging satellite into a sun-synchronous low Earth...
