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China’s Beidou navigation network grows with successful launch

June 13, 2016 Stephen Clark

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 above Earth.

Long March 3A rocket gives boost to Chinese navigation satellite

March 29, 2016 Stephen Clark

China’s Beidou navigation system received a new addition Tuesday with the successful launch of a fresh satellite aboard a Long March 3A rocket.

Successful launch expands China’s Beidou navigation system

February 2, 2016 Stephen Clark

A new addition to China’s Beidou navigation network launched Monday on top of a Long March 3C rocket, which injected the satellite into an orbit more than 13,000 miles above Earth several hours later.

Belarusian communications satellite launched from China

January 15, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Chinese rocket carried the first communications satellite for Belarus into orbit Friday, recording a success in the first space launch this year.

China launches eagle-eyed satellite to stare down at Earth

December 29, 2015 Stephen Clark

China launched a high-altitude satellite Monday fitted with a powerful telescope to collect nearly continuous imagery of the Asia-Pacific from geostationary orbit, an apparently unique capability that could help track foreign naval activity, according to Chinese news reports.

Long March lofts communications craft for Chinese government

December 9, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Long March 3B rocket driven by four strap-on boosters blasted off Wednesday from the Xichang space base in southwestern China, delivering a communications payload to orbit a half-hour later to likely begin service for the Chinese military.

China launches first satellite for Laos

November 22, 2015 Stephen Clark

Built and financed by China, a $258 million Laotian communications satellite project launched Friday aboard a Long March 3B rocket to better connect the mountainous Southeast Asia nation and surrounding regions.

Military communications craft likely aboard Chinese launch

November 3, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket lifted off Tuesday from the country’s Xichang space base, heading into orbit with a secretive payload believed by Western observers to be a military communications satellite.

Satellite launched to beam TV and Internet to the Asia-Pacific

October 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

A commercial Chinese communications satellite launched Friday aboard a Long March 3B rocket on a mission to broadcast television to consumers across the Asia-Pacific and connect passengers on ships and airplanes with the Internet.

20th satellite launched for Chinese navigation fleet

September 30, 2015 Stephen Clark

China added another spacecraft to its growing constellation of Beidou navigation satellites Tuesday with a successful launch by a Long March 3B rocket.