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...
17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
... Launch Center in Northwest China. The #atellite, named PRSC-EO1, was launched at 1207 (Beijing Time) by a Long March 2D carrier rocket and entered its planned orbit successfully. # # # Editor’s comment: With a plethora of launches in a single...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
... of available launch vehicles. In fact, those with any knowledge of that industry will find the coverage of Chinese Long March rockets poor and Indian PSLV and GSLV missing. More surprisingly, given the heavy emphasis towards...
