While lunar orbiters have imaged the lunar far side before, China is attempting a world first in trying to land its Chang’e 4 lander and rover mission near the South Pole. The first stage of the mission went well with the successful launch of Chang’e 4 on a Long March...
On 19 November 2018, a SAST-built and operated Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in china. The launch was aiming to place a Shiyan Weixing 6 satellite into a 500km Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit as well as some smaller satellites....
At 1800 GMT, 17 November 2018, another Long March 3B/YZ-1 (CZ 3B/YZ-1) lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, PRC, carrying two satellites to MEO (Medium Earth Orbit) for the Beidou constellation. This mission marks the 33rd launch of the year for China...
At 1557 GMT on 1 November 2018, a Long March 3B/G2 (CZ-3B/G2) rocket lifted-off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center dropping the Beidou-3G1Q satellite off in Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The satellite will complete the journey to GEO (Geostationary Earth...
At 0043 GMT, 29 October 2018, the CFOSAT mission was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, PRC, by an Chinese Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). CFOSAT (Chinese-French Oceanography...
The Chinese private launch company Landspace which is licenced by, but not run by, the Chinese state has had its first launch – and its first launch failure. The Zhuque-1 launch vehicle – better known as the ZQ-1 – was launched from the Jiuquan...
