16 September 2016
China launches its second space lab 'Tiangong 2' into orbit
... into the skies from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northwestern Gobi Desert on the back of a Long March 7 rocket. This new module builds on the earlier success of the first space station, Tiangong-1, and aside from...
04 November 2016
China launches new heavy-lift rocket
... country plans to have up and running by 2022. The rocket will also launch Chang'e 5, a robotic sample-return Moon mission, scheduled for 2017. Other Long March rockets, the Long March 6 and Long March 7 have also made their debuts in 2015 and 2016...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... via its national space programmes – Western launch providers are at least grateful that its Long March and other rockets cannot directly compete for commercial launches due to satellite technology transfer restrictions. Nevertheless, China cleverly...
