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Orange exhaust pushes a large Long March rocket from the pad at the coastal Wenchang spaceport, with white smoke billowing around lightning towers near the launch tower.
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China set to launch first Guowang megaconstellation satellites on Long March 5B

HELSINKI — China appears set to launch the first satellites for a long-expected national low Earth orbit megaconstellation after rollout of a Long March 5B rocket at Wenchang spaceport. Images […]

by Andrew Jones December 11, 2024December 11, 2024
A Long March 6A rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China, surrounded by four towering lightning rods, leaving a plume of dense white exhaust against a backdrop of a partly cloudy blue sky. The launch marks the deployment of the third batch of 18 Qianfan (Thousand Sails) satellites, a key step in China's ambitious low Earth orbit megaconstellation project, December 5, 2024.
Posted inLaunch

Long March 6A launches third batch of Thousand Sails constellation satellites

by Andrew Jones December 5, 2024December 5, 2024
The second batch of Qianfan/Thousand Sails satellites launches on a Long March 6A rocket from Taiyuan, Oct. 15, 2024.
Posted inLaunch

China launches second batch of 18 satellites for Thousand Sails megaconstellation

by Andrew Jones October 15, 2024October 15, 2024
Illustration of orbital debris. Credit: IARPA
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by Jason Rainbow September 16, 2024September 6, 2024
Posted inCommercial

China to launch first satellites for megaconstellation in August

by Andrew Jones June 27, 2024June 27, 2024
Posted inCommercial

Space Pioneer raises $207 million for reusable rocket

by Andrew Jones June 6, 2024June 6, 2024
Posted inCommercial

Chinese firm files plans for 10,000-satellite constellation

by Andrew Jones May 27, 2024May 27, 2024
Rollout of the first Long March 5B to the pad at Wenchang, South China in April 2020.
Posted inCommercial

China to expand commercial spaceport to support upcoming launch surge

by Andrew Jones May 21, 2024May 21, 2024
A Landspace Zhuque-3 prototype rocket stage, powered by a methane-liquid oxygen exhuast plume, in the skies above the desert at Jiuquan spaceport, Jan. 19, 2024.
Posted inCommercial

China to leverage growing commercial space sector to launch megaconstellations

by Andrew Jones April 19, 2024April 19, 2024
Posted inOpinion

Connecting the Dots | Making light work of space junk removal

by Jason Rainbow March 28, 2024March 28, 2024

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