09 June 2019
Echo Huang from webportal Quartz found out the details behind the commercial deal for the Long March 11 sea launch: "WEY, a luxury sports utility vehicle brand that’s part of Great Wall Motors, sponsored the launch of the CZ-11 WEY rocket, part of the national Changzheng, or Long March, rocket program. WEY claimed it was the first automobile firm to partner with China’s aerospace industry, and that this was also the first time a corporate brand was included on a rocket from the state-owned rocket builder, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology."
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09 June 2019
In May, China Great Wall Industries published on its website 14 payload opportunities on its upcoming Long March rocket flights.
The offers are all for the 2020-2021 time period and comprise different launch configurations: as a shared ride, as a dedicated mission or within a cluster.
Potential customers can raise their interest via CGWI's service e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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08 June 2019
On 8 June, China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang 3 set sail for the southern Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province for upcoming satellite maritime monitoring missions. It is the second voyage of the ship this year, and the 52nd since it was put into operation more than 20 years ago. Yuanwang 7 sailed to the Pacific Ocean and Yuanwang 5 to the Indian Ocean in May, respectively. Yuanwang-6 began its first overhaul at the end of April. In 2019, China will have more than 30 space launches, and the Yuanwang fleet will operate for more than 700 days at sea.
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04 June 2019
A satellite exposition opened on 04 June in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, displaying the latest navigation technologies and products of BeiDou satellites. The three-day exposition, the second China (Nanjing) BeiDou Satellite Navigation Application Expo, will attract 200 exhibitors and 5,000 visitors, according to its organizer. Over 30 scholars and academicians from the satellite and smart industries will also participate in a forum held during the expo.
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05 June 2020
China's BeiDou-3 system, a global geolocation network, is expected to be completed in 2020, with a total of 35 satellites, researchers at a conference on the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) said Jin Shuanggen, a researcher at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, at the second China (Nanjing) BeiDou Satellite Navigation Application Expo and Beidou Summit Forum. "Traditional satellites navigation service is hardly available in the interior of buildings, underground, underwater and other locations. The BDS system provides better accuracy in these locations," Jin said..
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05 June 2019
China successfully launched a rocket from a mobile launch platform in the Yellow Sea off Shandong Province on Wednesday, sending two technology experiment satellites and five commercial satellites into space. A Long March-11 solid propellant carrier rocket blasted off at 12:06 p.m. from the mobile platform. It is China's first space launch from a sea-based platform and the 306th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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China launches first rocket into space from platform at sea
03 June 2019
China is set to conduct the country's first space launch from a mobile sea-based platform in its territorial waters before the end of this year, aiming to provide a new option for domestic and international clients, Li Tongyu, Long March 11's project manager said. A Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket will lift off from a modified drilling rig－in the Yellow Sea off Shandong province. "This mission was initially intended as a technological demonstration of a seaborne launch, but we later decided to make it a commercial operation," Li said to China Daily in his office at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in southern Beijing.
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