The latest in a long series of Chinese weather satellites, Feng Yun 2H ,was successfully launched towards a Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China at 1307 GMT on 5 June 2018. The 1,390kg satellite was built by Shanghai...
A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket successfully launched the Gaofen-6 Earth observation/Remote sensing satellite from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia, China. The satellite was launched at 0413 GMT on 2 June 2018. Unlike many of China’s programmes...
China has launched a new lunar satellite called Queqiao. This is no scientific probe or lunar rover, however. Instead it is a lunar communications relay satellite that will be used to relay data from future lunar exploration missions, including those to the far side...
The OneSpace Technology firm based in Beijing, China, is claiming to have developed China’s first “all commercial” launch vehicle. The rocket is called Chongqing Liangiang Star-1 (CLS-1), and which is also known as OS-XO, uses solid rocket...
A contract was signed on 22 March 2018 between Pakistan’s Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) for the joint-development and launch of the PakSat Multi-Mission-1 (PakSat-MM1) satellite. Both...
At 1828 GMT, 8 May, a Chinese Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China, carrying the GAOFEN 5 remote-sensing satellite to a LEO sun-synchronous orbit. The GAOFEN series are part of a civilian, high-resolution,...
