News Archive / Tagged: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

• Chinese commercial spaceflight company fails 1st launch

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 30th, 2019

  OneSpace, a Chinese commercial spaceflight company, failed in its first attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit on Wednesday, March 27.

• Long March 2D sends 5 satellites into orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 20th, 2018

  A Long March 2D rocket took to the skies early Tuesday to orbit the Shiyan-6 Earth-observing spacecraft and four smaller satellites for China.

• Long March 2C sends CFOSat and seven small satellites to orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiOctober 29th, 2018

  China sent a Long March 2C booster on a mission to deliver the Chinese-French CFOSat ocean-observing spacecraft and seven smaller payloads into a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) on Monday, October 29.

• Chinese startup LandSpace launches Zhuque-1 rocket, fails to deliver payload to orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiOctober 28th, 2018

  China received the following messages yesterday, "You can't win them all."

• China launches Long March 2C with Yaogan-32 duo atop

  Tomasz NowakowskiOctober 9th, 2018

  China continues to maintain the country's busy 2018 launch manifest with the flight of a pair of Yaogan-32 remote sensing satellites.

• Chinese light-lift Kuaizhou 1A launcher orbits Centispace-1 1S test satellite

  Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 29th, 2018

  China successfully launched a Kuaizhou 1A rocket on Saturday, September 29. This light-lift booster sent the small test satellite, known as Centispace-1 1S to space.

• Chinese startup launches three CubeSats into space

  Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 6th, 2018

  I-Space, a Beijing-based space startup, successfully launched on Wednesday, Sept. 5, its SQX-1Z rocket carrying three CubeSats. The flight marked the first time when a private Chinese company sends satellites into space.

• Long March 2D launches Gaofen 6 and Luojia 1 to orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiJune 3rd, 2018

  A Long March 2D booster took to the skies on Saturday, June 2, to deliver the Gaofen 6 Earth-observing satellite and Luojia 1 CubeSat into space.

• Chinese Long March 11 launches 5 Earth observation satellites

  Tomasz NowakowskiApril 26th, 2018

  Using a Long March 11 rocket, China orbited five satellites designed for Earth-observing purposes. Liftoff took place at 12:42 a.m. EDT (4:42 GMT) April 26, 2018 from Launch Area 4 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the county's Gansu Province.

• China conducts surprise launch of Long March 4C rocket, lofts four satellites into space

  Tomasz NowakowskiApril 11th, 2018

  Without any prior notice, China sent a Long March 4C booster aloft on Tuesday, April 10, carrying three Yaogan-31 spacecraft along with one microsatellite.

• China launches latest Land Surveying Satellite into space

  Tomasz NowakowskiMarch 17th, 2018

  A Long March 2D rocket took to the skies March 17, 2018, sending China’s fourth Land Surveying Satellite into orbit. The booster roared skyward at 2:10 a.m. EST (07:10 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s Gansu Province.

• Long March 2D sends Zhangheng-1 seismo-electromagnetic spacecraft and six small satellites into space

  Tomasz NowakowskiFebruary 2nd, 2018

  China launched its first seismo-electromagnetic satellite, known as Zhangheng-1 on Friday, Feb. 2, atop a Long March 2D rocket. Six other smaller satellites also piggybacked on the mission. The flight highlighted China's growing space ambitions.

• Long March 2D to launch Zhangheng-1 and six small satellites to orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiJanuary 31st, 2018

  A Long March 2D rocket is poised to send the Zhangheng-1 Earth-observing spacecraft into space on Friday, February 2, along with six other small satellites.

• Long March 11 lifts off from Jiuquan with six small satellites

  Tomasz NowakowskiJanuary 19th, 2018

  China’s light-lift Long March 11 booster took to the skies on Friday, January 19, tasked with the delivery of six small satellites into orbit.

• Long March 11 scheduled to orbit nine small satellites Friday

  Tomasz NowakowskiJanuary 17th, 2018

  China is preparing to perform its fourth launch of this year, with the flight scheduled for Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. The mission will see a Long March 11 booster sending nine satellites into space.