18 March 2020
Failure of China's Long March 7A launch could impact major missions
... country’s ambitious space missions planned for the rest of the year. The 60.13 metre (197-foot) tall Long March 7A rocket, also known as the CZ-7A, encountered an “abnormality” shortly after lifting off at 13:34 GMT (9:34 a.m. EDT) from the Wenchang...
06 May 2020
China launches prototype spacecraft on maiden flight of Long March 5B
... be carried out. With its ten engines, including four strapped on boosters to increase its lift capabilities, the Long March 5B is China’s most powerful launch vehicle to date. As tall as an 18-storey building, and with a 5-metre-diameter core stage...
04 November 2016
China launches new heavy-lift rocket
... satellite, which will be used for testing electric-propulsion technology. The Long March 5 is made up of two stages and is 57 meters tall...for 2017. Other Long March rockets, the Long March 6 and Long March 7 have also made their debuts in 2015 ...
04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
... to be placed into geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above Earth. Great expectations are riding on the success of the Long March 5 which was touted to be the rocket of choice to get China's Chang'e-5 sample-return mission to the Moon in November...
13 May 2020
Debris from China's rocket may have hit African villages
...lift launch system, the Long March 5B, is currently the most powerful member of the Long March rocket family and has ...and it appeared to be the case for the remains of the Long March 5B as potential reentry areas in Australia, US, Africa and the ...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
...) heavy-class vehicles such as the Delta IV Heavy. China have also announced they are developing the Long March 9 – a Saturn V-class super-heavy-lift rocket comparable in capacity to NASA’s Space Launch System – that will be capable...
