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China launches the last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 9:43 a.m., June 23, 2020. (Photo/China News Service)

 

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That smoke is red. I guess they use a different type of propelant than the US/SpaceX ?

 

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Rocket to lift Mars probe moved to launch pad

Long March 5 carrier rocket arrives at its launch pad to lift China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe.

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Picture released on Aug 23, 2016 by the lunar probe and space project center of Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence shows the concept portraying what the Mars rover and lander would look like. [Photo/Xinhua]




Long March 5 carrier rocket arrives at its launch pad to lift China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province, July 17, 2020. Tianwen 1, a Chinese Mars probe, is set to be launched atop a Long March 5 carrier rocket in the coming days (Photos/China News Service)

 

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China successfully launches first Mars mission - Xinhua | English.news.cn

26 photos in the above link.



Researchers celebrate the successful launch of a Mars probe at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, July 23, 2020. China launched a Mars probe on Thursday, designed to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, taking the first step in its planetary exploration of the solar system. A Long March-5 rocket, China's largest launch vehicle, carrying the spacecraft with a mass of about 5 tonnes, soared into the sky from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern China's island province of Hainan at 12:41 p.m. (Beijing Time). About 36 minutes later, the spacecraft, including an orbiter and a rover, was sent into the Earth-Mars transfer orbit, embarking on an almost seven-month journey to the red planet, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). (Xinhua/Cai Yang)






A Mars probe is launched on a Long March-5 rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, July 23, 2020. (Photos: China News Service/Guo Wenbin)

 

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The satellite, Gaofen 9 04, is sent into orbit by a Long March 2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, Aug 6, 2020. The satellite will be mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land right confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation. It will also provide information for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative. (Photo: China News Service/ Wang Jiangbo)

 

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A Long March-2D carrier rocket, carrying the Gaofen-9 05 satellite, is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Aug. 23, 2020. China successfully launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10:27 a.m. Sunday (Beijing Time). A multifunctional test satellite and another satellite named Tiantuo-5 were also launched via the rocket. (Photos by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)

 

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China's second sea-based space launch places 9 satellites in orbit

China launched a Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket from a ship in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday morning, sending nine satellites into orbit in the nation's second sea-based launch mission.

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China launches a Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket from a ship in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday morning, Sept 15, 2020. [Photo by Wang Weitong/Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

China launched a Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket from a ship in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday morning, sending nine satellites into orbit in the nation's second sea-based launch mission.

The Long March 11-HY2 — the 10th member of the Long March 11 family — blasted off at 9:22 am from the Debo 3, a self-propelled deck barge that was modified for the mission.





Nine satellites, belonging to the Jilin 1 Gaofen 03-1 group, are launched by a Long March 11 carrier rocket at the Yellow Sea, on Sept 15, 2020.

About 13 minutes later, after traveling 535 kilometers, it deployed nine Jilin 1 high-resolution Earth-observation satellites — three to take videos and six to take photographs — in sun-synchronous orbits.

Each of the satellites, developed by Changguang Satellite Technology in Changchun, Jilin province, weighs about 42 kilograms. They will provide remote-sensing services to users in fields such as agriculture, forestry, land resources and environmental protection.
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A Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying 13 satellites is in place at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, Nov. 6, 2020.




China successfully sent 13 satellites, including 10 commercial remote sensing satellites developed by Argentine company Satellogic, into orbit from the launch center on Friday.(Photos: China News Service/ Zheng Taotao)

 

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China's new carrier rocket CERES-1 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 3:12 pm (Beijing Time) on Nov 7, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

JIUQUAN -- China's new carrier rocket CERES-1, designed for commercial use, made its maiden flight on Saturday, sending one satellite into planned orbit.

The rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 3:12 pm (Beijing Time).

Developed by the Beijing-based high-tech company Galactic Energy, the CERES-1 is a small-scale solid-propellant carrier rocket capable of sending micro-satellites into low-Earth orbit.
On board the rocket was a satellite belonging to the Tianqi constellation. The satellite, Tianqi-11, will be used for data collection and transmission.


A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Nov 12, 2020. China successfully launched Tiantong 1-02, a new mobile telecommunication satellite, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. The satellite was launched at 23:59 (Beijing Time) by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. [Photo/Xinhua]


China launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket on Thursday night to deploy a communication satellite into space, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contractor.


The rocket blasted off at 11:59 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, transporting the Tiantong 1-02 to a geosynchronous orbit.

Tiantong 1-02 is the second satellite in the Tiantong 1 system, which was developed by the China Academy of Space Technology and consists of space-based assets, ground facilities as well as user terminals.

Tiantong 1 is part of China's space-based information infrastructure and is the country's answer to the Inmarsat network. Its service is helping China break foreign companies' dominance in this field, the company said in a statement on Friday.

 

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China launches Chang'e-5 to collect, return moon samples - Xinhua | English.news.cn

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan, Nov. 24, 2020.




China on Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

WENCHANG, Hainan, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- China Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body.

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan at 4:30 a.m. (Beijing Time).

Chang'e-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in China's aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample mission for more than 40 years.

Chang'e-5, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner, with a total takeoff mass of 8.2 tonnes, is expected to accomplish unmanned rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit, an unprecedented feat.

After it enters the lunar orbit, the lander-ascender combination will separate from the orbiter-returner combination.

While the orbiter-returner orbits about 200 km above the lunar surface, the lander-ascender will touch down on the northwest region of Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Storms, on the near side of the moon in early December.

Within 48 hours, a robotic arm will be extended to scoop up rocks and regolith on the lunar surface, and a drill will bore into the ground. About 2 kg of samples are expected to be collected and sealed in a container in the spacecraft.

Then the ascender will take off, and dock with the orbiter-returner in orbit. After the samples are transferred to the returner, the ascender will separate from the orbiter-returner.

When the geometric relationship between Earth and the moon is suitable, the orbiter will carry the returner back to Earth. The returner will reenter the atmosphere and land at the Siziwang Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The whole flight will last more than 20 days.

 

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China launches Chang'e-5 to collect, return moon samples - Xinhua | English.news.cn

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan, Nov. 24, 2020.




China on Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

WENCHANG, Hainan, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- China Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body.

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan at 4:30 a.m. (Beijing Time).

Chang'e-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in China's aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample mission for more than 40 years.

Chang'e-5, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner, with a total takeoff mass of 8.2 tonnes, is expected to accomplish unmanned rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit, an unprecedented feat.

After it enters the lunar orbit, the lander-ascender combination will separate from the orbiter-returner combination.

While the orbiter-returner orbits about 200 km above the lunar surface, the lander-ascender will touch down on the northwest region of Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Storms, on the near side of the moon in early December.

Within 48 hours, a robotic arm will be extended to scoop up rocks and regolith on the lunar surface, and a drill will bore into the ground. About 2 kg of samples are expected to be collected and sealed in a container in the spacecraft.

Then the ascender will take off, and dock with the orbiter-returner in orbit. After the samples are transferred to the returner, the ascender will separate from the orbiter-returner.

When the geometric relationship between Earth and the moon is suitable, the orbiter will carry the returner back to Earth. The returner will reenter the atmosphere and land at the Siziwang Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The whole flight will last more than 20 days.

fun fact chang e is famous folk tale in china and Vietnam - korea-japan( each country have diffirent name for chang e , in Vietnam it hang nga ) pretty much a lady who trap in the moon , the fold story is usually told in mid autumn festival or moon cake / full moon festival in some western country , long march missile is name after the communist famous long march in the 30s fleeing from KMT which kill a lot of people on the march

 

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China's Chang'e 5 enters lunar orbit for historic attempt to return moon samples

China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft has entered orbit around the moon ahead of an historic attempt to collect samples from the moon and return to Earth.

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China's Chang'e-5 successfully lands on moon

 

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Chinese space station in Argentina is a ‘black box’

Shrouded in secrecy, the compound has stirred unease among local residents, fueled conspiracy theories and sparked concerns in the Trump administration about its true purpose.

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That smoke is red. I guess they use a different type of propelant than the US/SpaceX ?

China's LongMarch vehicles before LM-5 used N2O4 and UDMH -- nasty stuff, and the red cloud is from the former. LM-5 uses LOX-Kerosene, as does SpaceX Falcon-9.

 

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Chinese Hyperbola-1 rocket fails during its second launch - NASASpaceFlight.com

The Chinese private space launch company i-Space (Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd.) developed Hyperbola-1…

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China's 1st Mars rover 'Zhurong' lands on the Red Planet

It's China's first Mars rover landing ever.

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The Tianwen-1 mission, China's first interplanetary endeavor, reached the surface of the Red Planet Friday (May 14) at approximately 7:11 p.m. EDT (2311 GMT), though Chinese space officials have not yet confirmed the exact time and location of touchdown. Tianwen-1 (which translates to "Heavenly Questions") arrived in Mars' orbit in February after launching to the Red Planet on a Long March 5 rocket in July 2020.

 

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'Nine minutes of terror' as China lands spacecraft on Mars

The Tianwen-1 vessel has landed in an icy area known as Utopia Planitia, about 1,200 miles away from America's Perseverance rover.

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China on Mars: Zhurong rover returns first pictures

Imagery comes back from the six-wheeled robot that landed successfully at the weekend.

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