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Kuaizhou rocket

Rocket launch from a mountainous spaceport, showing a solid-propellant rocket ascending against a clear blue sky with smoke trailing from the launch pad, surrounded by forested hills
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China debuts modified solid rocket with remote sensing satellite launch

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 […]

by Andrew Jones December 4, 2024December 4, 2024
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China launches first geosynchronous orbit radar satellite

by Andrew Jones August 14, 2023September 22, 2023
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China’s first stackable satellite reaches orbit on solid rocket launch

by Andrew Jones June 9, 2023June 9, 2023
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China conducts trio of orbital launches across two days

by Andrew Jones September 27, 2022February 22, 2023
A 41-meter-long white Long March 2D rocket rises from its launch tower at hill-surrounded Xichang launch center. Mach diamonds form in the exhaust while plumes of white smoke billow away from the path of the rocket.
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China performs two launches inside two hours

by Andrew Jones September 6, 2022February 22, 2023
Liftoff of a Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket from a TEL at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, on June 22 (UTC), 2022.
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Kuaizhou-1A returns to flight with test satellite launch

by Andrew Jones June 22, 2022February 22, 2023
A view of the Jiuquan launch center from the Sentinel-2 satellite. China's reusable experimental spacecraft launched from the facility Sept. 4.
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Explosion at Chinese space launch center revealed by satellite imagery

by Andrew Jones June 14, 2022February 22, 2023
China sets a new national orbital launch record with launch of a Kuaizhou-1A rocket carrying the Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F satellite, Oct. 27, 2021.
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Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket launch fails

by Andrew Jones December 15, 2021February 22, 2023
The Kuaizhou-1A on a TEL ahead of launch of Shiyan-11 on Nov. 24, 2021.
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Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches classified Shiyan-11 satellite

by Andrew Jones November 25, 2021February 22, 2023
Liftoff of the Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket sending the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02D Earth observation satellite into orbit.
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Classified satellite declared lost after China launches twice in 2 hours

by Andrew Jones September 27, 2021February 22, 2023

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