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Long March-4C launches Gaofen-10

Oct 4, 2019

A Long March-4C launch vehicle launched the Gaofen-10 satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, northern China, on 4 October 2019, at 18:51 UTC (5 October, at 02:51 local time). Gaofen-10 (高分十号) is a microwave remote sensing satellite capable of providing photographs with a resolution of less than a meter, part of China’s high-definition Earth observation project. According to official sources, Gaofen-10 will be used in land survey, urban planning, road network design, crop yield estimate, as well as disaster relief.

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Long March-4B launches Gaofen-7 satellite

Nov 3, 2019

A Long March-4B launch vehicle launched the Gaofen-7 Earth-observation satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, northern China, on 3 November 2019, at 03:22 UTC (11:22 local time). According to the China National Space Administration (CNSA): Gaofen-7 (高分七号) is “China’s first civil-use optical transmission three-dimensional surveying and mapping satellite that reaches the sub-meter level”. The satellite “can draw stereoscopic maps with an error of less than one meter for the topography of China and even the whole world.”

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Long March-3B launches BeiDou-3 IGSO-3

Nov 4, 2019

A Long March-3B rocket launched the third BeiDou-3 navigation satellite in an Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit (BDS-3 IGSO-3), from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan Province, southwest China, on 4 November 2019, at 17:43 UTC (5 November, at 01:43 local time). BDS-3 IGSO-3 is the 49th satellite of the BDS satellite family, the 24th satellite of the BDS-3 system and the third BeiDou-3 navigation satellite to be positioned in an Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit.
Credit: China Central Television (CCTV)

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Long March-6 launches five Ningxia-1 satellites

Nov 13, 2019

A Long March-6 launch vehicle launched five Ningxia-1 satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, northern China, on 13 November 2019, at 06:35 UTC (14:35local time). The satellites are part of a commercial satellite project invested by the Ningxia Jingui Information Technology Co., Ltd. and will be mainly used for remote sensing detection.

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Long March-3B launches two BeiDou-3 satellites

Nov 23, 2019

A Long March-3B launch vehicle, with an Yuanzheng-1 (Expedition-1) upper stage, launched two new BeiDou-3 navigation satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan Province, southwest China, on 23 November 2019, at 00:55 UTC (08:55 local time). The satellites are the 50th and 51st satellites in the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS).

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Long March-4C launches Gaofen-12

Nov 27, 2019

A Long March-4C launch vehicle launched the Gaofen-12 Earth observation satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, northern China, on 27 November 2019, at 23:52 UTC (28 November, at 07:52 local time). Gaofen-12 (高分十二) is a microwave remote sensing satellite capable of providing photographs with a resolution of better than a meter. According to official sources, it will be used in land surveys, urban planning, road network design, crop yield estimate, disaster relief and can also serve projects along the Belt and Road.
Credit: China Central Television

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Long March-3B launches two BeiDou-3 MEO satellites

Dec 16, 2019

A Long March-3B launch vehicle launched two new BeiDou-3 navigation satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan Province, southwest China, on 16 December 2019, at 07:20 UTC (15:20 local time). With the launch of BeiDou-3 MEO-23 and BeiDou-3 MEO-24, a total of 24 medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites of the BDS-3 have been successfully sent into space, and the deployment of the core BDS-3 constellation system has been completed, according to Yang Changfeng, chief designer of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS).

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CBERS-4A launch

Dec 19, 2019

A Long March-4B launch vehicle launched the China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite-4A (CBERS-4A) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, northern China, on 20 December 2019, at 03:22 UTC (11:22 local time). CBERS-4A will replace CBERS-4, launched in 2014, and is equipped with three optical payloads: a wide-range panchromatic multispectral camera developed by China, and a multispectral camera and a wide-field imager developed by Brazil. The same rocket launched into orbit eight microsatellites, including the first Ethiopian satellite, ETRSS-1, a wide-range multispectral remote-sensing microsatellite donated to Ethiopia.

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Long March-5 Y3 launch

Dec 27, 2019

The Long March-5 Y3 launch vehicle was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center, Hainan Province, China, on 27 December 2019, at 12:46 UTC (20:46 local time). This was the third launch of the Long March-5 rocket, China’s largest launch vehicle. The payload is Shijian 20, an experimental geostationary communications satellite.

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China's Long March 3B Launches Experimental Communications Satellite

Jan 7, 2020

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched a "new communication technology experiment satellite" from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, China on Jan. 7, 2019, according to China Central Television (CCTV).

The satellite was manufactured by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology and the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology.