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China lofts three military Yaogan satellites in Chang Zheng 4C launch March 12, 2021 China continues to upgrade its oceanic surveillance systems with the launch of three new satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Group 04 of Yaogan Weixing-31 satellites launched at 02:20 UTC on 13 March from launch pad 94 of the LC-43 launch complex on a Chang Zheng 4C rocket. As usual, Chinese media refer to the new satellites as being used “for electromagnetic environment surveys and other related technology tests,” and the mission is similar to the Yaogan-31 Group 01, Group 02, and Gr...

Chinese Hyperbola-1 rocket fails during its second launch February 1, 2021 The Chinese private space launch company i-Space (Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd.) developed Hyperbola-1 (Shian Quxian-1) rocket failed in its second launch on Monday in an attempt to orbit the small Fangzhou-2 (Ark-2) satellite. The launch took place at 08:15 UTC from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Available images from the launch show the vehicle in trouble after leaving the launch complex. Around the time of MaxQ, smoke is seeing coming from the frontal part of the launcher that disintegrated...

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 related technology tests.” This mission is similar to the Yaogan- 31 Group-01 launched on April 10, 2018...

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 small satellite, Weina Jishu Shiyan, was also launched on this mission. The small satellite will be us...