23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... mission successfully launched early this morning, atop a Long March 5 rocket from the country’s Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island at 12:41 am EDT (04:40 GMT). The probe now begins a long seven-month journey through deep space to the...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch costs Rs 381 crores; other rockets-a Russian Proton Rs 455 crores; Japan’s H-11A, Chinese Long March, Arianespace Ariane-5 and the American Atlas 5 each cost Rs 6,692 crores. Against these a launch by ISRO’s PSLV...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... is woefully undefended. Features first, security second. A Tiantong-1 Mobile Communications Satellite was placed in orbit by China’s Long March 3B rocket in August 2016. What is notable in this image of a command and control dashboard from the event...
29 August 2018
New national launch record for China
... system and it plans to have 35 active satellites in orbit by 2020 to provide global GNSS coverage. The launch of the Long March 3B rocket, which took place from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, was the 23rd successful launch...
19 July 2019
China's Tiangong-2 space lab to deorbit today
... extending from the main body, was launched from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China on top of a Long March 2F rocket in September, 2016. The space lab has been operational for over 1,000 days now and...
15 October 2021
China to launch astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
...to launch at 12:23 am (Beijing time) on Saturday, the Shenzhou-13 spaceship carrying the three taikonauts is expected to blast off on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China...
