HELSINKI — A Chinese commercial launch firm launched its first upgraded Kuaizhou-1A rocket late Tuesday, adding to the country’s growing light-lift launch options. The enhanced Kuaizhou-1A rocket lifted off at […]

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China launched what is thought to be the world’s first geosynchronous orbit synthetic aperture radar satellite on Saturday.

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A light-lift solid rocket sent an experimental “plate-like” stackable satellite into orbit late Thursday as the country looks to build its answer to Starlink. 

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China launched eight classified remote sensing satellites across three launches in recent days, adding to the country’s development of reconnaissance capabilities.

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China conducted its 36th and 37th orbital launches of 2022 within a couple of hours of each other starting late Monday, using the Jiuquan and Xichang spaceports.

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A Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket sent the Tianxing-1 satellite into orbit late Tuesday, marking a return to flight six months after the solid light-light launcher suffered failure.

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An explosion hit rocket facilities at China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in October 2021, commercial satellite imagery shows. 

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A Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket failed after liftoff late Tuesday with the loss of a pair of commercial satellites to test navigation enhancement for autonomous driving.

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A Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket launched the experimental Shiyan-11 satellite for China’s main space contractor from northwest China late Nov. 24.

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The status of a classified satellite launched from southwest China Sept. 27 remains unknown more than 12 hours after liftoff.

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Chinese large state-owned enterprise CASIC laid out a new set of commercial space plans for the next five years at a conference Monday.

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Launch of a Kuaizhou-1A satellite carrying a remote sensing satellite has ended in ambiguity and likely failure following liftoff from Jiuquan.

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Launch of a new Chinese Kuaizhou-11 commercial solid rocket ended in failure Friday resulting in the loss of two satellites.

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A Chinese commercial Kuaizhou-1A rocket sold for $5.6 million in a live streamed auction hosted by e-commerce platform Taobao Wednesday.

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HELSINKI — China carried out its second orbital launch in just over 24 hours late Wednesday, sending the Yinhe-1 commercial 5G satellite into low Earth orbit. A Kuaizhou-1A solid launch […]

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China launches six remote sensing satellites into orbit with two launches inside three hours from sites in north China.

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Chinese launch companies are developing new, larger launchers; asteroid mining startup receives angel round funding.

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A Chinese commercial launch-service provider created earlier this year to bid for small-satellite business worldwide expects to launch an average 10 of its Kuaizhou solid-fueled rockets per year between 2017 and 2020, the company said Nov. 29.

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