Satellite Launching

China successfully launched a terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite and two other satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province Thursday. The satellites were launched at 11:08 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-4B carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. The carbon monitoring satellite is mainly used for terrestrial ...

China successfully launched a new group of remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province Friday. The satellites were launched as the third group of the Yaogan-35 family at 9:28 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. The satellites will be ...

Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) today successfully completed Australia’s first commercial space launch with NASA. The historic launch was NASA’s first from a fully commercial spaceport and is the first of three planned launches, with the other two scheduled for 4 and 12 July. The aim of the missions is to conduct astrophysical studies that can ...