China’s new Long March 7 rocket successful on first
The new lamp oil filled Long March 7 rocket, created to wind up a workhorse for an arranged Chinese space station and the nation’s furtive military space program, flew into space Saturday on its...
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China’s Beidou Satellite Navigation System
China Wednesday said its homegrown navigation system, deemed as rival to the US’ Global Positioning System (GPS), is expected to serve global users by 2020 and will provide open satellite navigation services “free of...
China’s Beidou navigation network grows with successful launch
From http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/13/chinas-beidou-navigation-network-grows-with-successful-launch/ A Chinese Long March 3C rocket boosted a fresh satellite into orbit Sunday to join the country’s Beidou navigation system, deploying the craft into an elliptical orbit ranging more than 22,000 miles...
China’s satellite industry eyes global satellite market
A Long March 4B rocket carrying a new civilian high-resolution mapping satellite “Ziyuan III 02” and two NewSat satellites from Uruguay blasts off at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Taiyuan, capital of north...