January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... of government policy prioritisation and execution of consistent and long-term plans. China’s achievements are both significant and...look to overseas markets, in particular in emerging markets. Long March 2F Y15 with Shenzhou 15 atop rolling to the ...
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...
