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Long March 4C lofts three Yaogan Weixing-31 satellites January 29, 2021 China launched its second orbital mission in 2021, orbiting three new satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Friday. The launch took place from Launch Pad 94 of the LC43 launch complex using the Long March-4C (Y31) rocket. The Yaogan Weixing-31 Group-02 mission comprises three satellites, with Chinese media referring to the new satellites to be used “for electromagnetic environment surveys and other relate...

Famous British brand Lola available for £7m Date published: January 9 2021 Lola, a famous name in British motorsport, have been put up for sale at a guide price of £7million. And the hope is that the brand could again become associated with racing as readily as during their halcyon days when successful in a variety of different categories. First connected to Formula 1 in 1962, Lola maintained an involvement through to 1997 but stopped building racing cars in 2012. Founded in the late 1950s b...

China named the satellite ‘Yaogan Weixing-33’, but on May 22, 2019, another Yaogan Weixing-33 was lost on a Long March-4C launch failure that occurred a few minutes after launch from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The lost Yaogan-33 was likely the second satellite of the successor series to the Yaogan Weixing-1 (Jianbing-5) class space-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. The first satellite of this second generation SAR was Yaogan-29, launched on November 26, 2015. Another sm...