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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 inaugural flight from a dispatch base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. China’s new Long March 7 rocket successful […]

28.06.2016Satellite News

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 charge”. Currently, B1I and B2I open service signals are being broadcast by the operating BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) BDS-2 to […]

18.06.2016Satellite News

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 (35,700 kilometers) above Earth. The new navigation platform will power its way into a circular geosynchronous orbit over the equator in […]

14.06.2016Satellite News

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 China’s Shanxi Province, May 30, 2016. Image courtesy Xinhua. China is likely to be building and supplying at least 10 percent […]

11.06.2016Satellite News