The launch of China’s Zhongxing-9A communications satellite atop a Long March 3B rocket did not reach its planned orbital destination on Sunday, Chinese state media confirmed after several hours of silence following the midnight hour liftoff from the Xichang launch base.
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China’s Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 16:08 UTC on Sunday, thundering into the midnight hour with the Zhongxing-9A communications satellite headed to a highly elliptical transfer orbit.
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China’s Tianzhou-1 cargo resupply craft, currently docked to the Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory completed its second in-orbit refueling demonstration
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China successfully sent the country’s first X-ray space telescope into orbit on Thursday atop a Long March 4B rocket blasting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 3:00 UTC.
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A spent Long March 4B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on May 27, 2017 over the Canadian territory after nearly three years in orbit following a dual-payload launch in 2014.
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The re-entry of the upper stage of China’s Long March 7 rocket that recently launched the country’s first orbital logistics mission was captured by dozens of observers in the Uzbek Capital of Tashkent.
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China successfully completed its first refueling exercise in orbit between the Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft and the Tiangong-2 space laboratory, marking the completion of the last crucial demonstration before the country can begin the deployment of its planned modular Space Station currently expected to start in 2018.
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China’s Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft arrived at its orbital destination Saturday morning, successfully docking with the Tiangong-2 space laboratory to conclude the first chapter in a pathfinder mission
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China’s aspirations of establishing a permanent outpost in orbit around Earth reached new heights on Thursday with the successful launch of the country’s first Tianzhou cargo spacecraft – embarking on a five-month shakedown mission to demonstrate China can keep its future modular space station stocked up on supplies and fuel.
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China’s Long March 7 rocket was moved to its launch pad on Hainan Island on Monday for the country’s first orbital logistics mission to prove critical technologies for the upcoming Chinese Space Station (CSS) that will begin deployment in 2018 to build a permanent Chinese outpost in orbit.
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China’s Long March 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday, lofting into orbit the country’s first high-throughput communications satellite that is set for an experimental mission to test out electric propulsion and laser communications.
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China is progressing toward the country’s first logistics mission set for liftoff in April to demonstrate a critical component of the long-term operation of China’s Space Station CSS that is being readied to begin deployment in 2018
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China carried out a secretive space launch Thursday night, debuting a new solid-fueled launch vehicle known as Kaituozhe-2 launching an experimental satellite into orbit.
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China’s BY70-1 CubeSat re-entered the atmosphere on February 18, 2017 after just one and a half months in orbit following a partial launch failure of its Long March 2D rocket that left it stranded in a lower-than-planned orbit with a relatively short lifetime.
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China’s Quantum Science Satellite was declared operational this week after five months of in-orbit testing, now set for a busy two-year mission demonstrating hack-proof communications by means of entangled photons as a trailblazer for what is widely considered the communications technology of the future.
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China’s Kuaizhou-1A “Speedy Vessel” conducted its first commercial launch on Monday, lifting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 4:11 UTC with a high-resolution video satellite and a pair of small CubeSats as payloads.
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A spent Long March 4B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on January 8, 2017 over the Canadian territory after seven months in orbit.
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