Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite
China was back in action on Thursday, conducting a rare commercial launch of a Long March 3B rocket with the APStar-6C communications satellite for APT Satellite Holdings
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Long March 3B Thunders off from China with Beidou Navigation Satellite Pair
China launched a Long March 3B rocket on Thursday, carrying the next pair of Beidou-3 navigation satellites to join the country’s growing Global Navigation Satellite System set to reach operational strength later this year.
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Re-Entry: Long March 3B Upper Stage from AlcomSat-1 Launch
A Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on March 10, 2018 after exactly three months in orbit, decaying from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Next Two Beidou Navigation Satellites Orbited by Chinese Long March 3B
China conducted its seventh orbital space launch of the year on Monday with a Long March 3B rocket placing the next pair of Beidou-3 navigation satellites into orbit to join the country’s growing Global Navigation Satellite System that is expected to reach operational strength later this year.
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Chinese Villagers Capture Falling Long March Rocket Booster on Video
Chinese villagers captured remarkable footage just after sunrise on Friday showing a Long March 3B rocket booster falling out of the sky, crashing into a mountain and exploding into flames
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China Continues Busy January with Dual-Satellite Launch for Beidou Navigation System
China continued its busy beginning of year push on Thursday with the launch of a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, carrying the next two Beidou-3 navigation satellites to join the country’s growing global navigation satellite system
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2017 Space Launch Statistics
The year 2017 saw a total of 90 known orbital launch attempts from seven nations and space ports in eight different countries. 2017 had the second most orbital launch attempts of any year in the current century, short of 92 launches in 2014 and showing a slight increase from 2016 that had 85 known launch attempts.
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Chinese Long March 3B Lifts AlcomSat-1 Dual-Purpose Communications Satellite for Algeria
China was in action again on Sunday, launching a Long March 3B rocket carrying the Chinese-built AlcomSat-1 communications satellite for operation by the Algerian Space Agency as a dual-purpose spacecraft for civilian and military communications.
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Long March 3B Rocket Lifts off with two Chinese Navigation Satellites
A Chinese Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the country’s Xichang Satellite Launch Center around 11:44 UTC on Sunday, embarking on a multi-hour climb into an orbit over 21,000 Kilometers in altitude to dispatch a pair of Beidou-3 navigation satellites to join China’s global navigation satellite system currently undergoing deployment.
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Re-Entry: Long March 3B Upper Stage from Beidou M3/M4 Launch
A Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on August 17, 2017 after over five years in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Medium Earth Transfer Orbit.
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Re-Entry: Long March 3B Rocket Body from Tiantong-1 Launch
A Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on July 21, 2017 after close to a year in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The Long March 3B rocket launched the Tiantong 1-1 mobile communications satellite operating in the S- and UHF communications bands, likely with military use.
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China’s Long March 3B Rocket fails to reach Orbital Destination with Zhongxing-9A Satellite
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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Zhongxing-9A Comsat lifts off atop Chinese Long March 3B, Launch Outcome Unclear
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 Long March 3B Lofts Shijian-13 Satellite to Test High-Throughput Communications & Ion Drive
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 opens 2017 with obscure Communications Test Satellite Launch
China opened the reign of orbital space launches in 2017 on Thursday with the country’s Long March 3B heavy-lift rocket
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2016 Space Launch Statistics
The year 2016 saw a total of 85 known orbital launch attempts operated by eight nations from space ports in
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Advanced Weather Satellite successfully placed in Orbit by Chinese Long March 3B Rocket
China’s Long March 3B rocket made a midnight-hour liftoff from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center Saturday night, carrying into orbit the first in the next-generation of Fengyun Geostationary Weather Satellites.
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