China successfully launched a Long March-2D rocket on January 15, sending 14 new satellites into space. The rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province at 11:14 am (Beijing Time). The satellites, including Qilu-2 and Qilu-3, have entered the...
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying four satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, May 20, 2024. The rocket lifted off at 11:06 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi. The ...
March 21, 2024. China on Thursday sent a group of satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and the satellites have entered the planned orbit.
China on Tuesday launched a Long March-6 rocket carrying three satellites into space.The rocket blasted off at 7:50 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi and sent the Shiyan-16A, Shiyan-16B and Shiyan-17 satellites into the preset ...
The satellites successfully entered their designated orbit, marking the first win for China's space program in 2024. The four satellites, belonging to the Tianmu-1 meteorological constellation, will be mainly used to provide commercial meteorological data services. ...
Over the past 51 years, since the first flight of the Long March-1 in 1970, Long March carrier rockets have been used in 92.1 percent of China's space launches, according to Xinhua.RELATED STORIES China launches four PIESAT-2 satellites aboard 544th Long March rocket Vide...
China on Wednesday sent 16 new satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi.A Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying 16 new satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Aug. 10, 2022. (...
The launch vehicle is capable of sending a 1.3-ton spacecraft into a sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of 700 kilometers, or satellites with a combined weight of 4 tons into a low-Earth orbit. China launched its first carrier rocket—a Long March 1—in April 1970 to send its first...
China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Thursday evening to place new remote-sensing satellites in space. The satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation were lifted at 6:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province, ...
China sends four satellites into space China launches a Long March 2D carrier rocket, sending 4 satellites into preset orbit, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi, July 23, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua] TAIYUAN - China on Sunday launched a Long March 2D carrier ...