China's Space Program News Thread

[Faithlock]

Landspace, a Chinese private space company, will launch China's first private Orbital launch rocket. The schedule of the launch will be around the end of October.

Previously, OneSpace and iSpace had conducted successful launches, but those are sub-Orbital launches.

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[Faithlock]

So far, out of the four most famous private companies in China, OneSpace had a successful sub-Orbital launch, iSpace had a successful sub-Orbital launch, OneSpace is going to have a Orbital launch later this month. That leave the Linkspace as the fourth private space company in China.

Linkspace is going directly to re-usability.

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Linkspace's RLV-T3 rocket VTVL (Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing) test earlier this year:

 

[SciNews]

A Long March-2C launch vehicle launched two Yaogan-32 remote sensing satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China, on 9 October 2018, at 02:43 UTC (10:43 local time).

 

[antiterror13]

wowww, China now has so many spy satellites. This Yaogan-32 is triplet satellites, same as Yaogan-31, 30 (even 9 satellites), Yaogan-25, 20, 17, 16 and 9

in just 12 years, so many advanced spy satellites

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[Faithlock]

So far China leads the world in number of orbital launches for 2018.

So far for 2018,
China has 27 rocket launches (35% of world total),
USA has 25 (32% of world total),
Russia has 10 (13% of world total),
Europe has 5 (6% of world total),
Japan has 5 (6% of world total),
India has 4 (5% of world total)

 

[antiterror13]

So far China leads the world in number of orbital launches for 2018.

So far for 2018,
China has 27 rocket launches (35% of world total),
USA has 25 (32% of world total),
Russia has 10 (13% of world total),
Europe has 5 (6% of world total),
Japan has 5 (6% of world total),
India has 4 (5% of world total)

and there will be some more launches before the end of 2018 ... will be 5 more Beidou-3 sats launched this year .. and of course other sats as well

 

[2=GT]

China to launch unmanned test flight of next-generation crewed spacecraft in 2019

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Appears to be significantly heavier than Shenzhou. Return capsule scale model launched in 2016

 

[taxiya]

Apparently this 2019 launch was planned and reported long time ago in April 2018. But it did not gain broad attention until today. Here is the April report

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近期，装备发展部张育林副部长、载人航天工程周建平总师、郑敏副总师、载人航天工程办公室王兆耀主任等领导听取了新一代载人飞船论证工作汇报。航天五院张洪太院长，科研生产部、载人航天总体部等的领导专家和相关人员参加了会议。会上，载人航天总体部详细汇报了新一代载人飞船方案论证情况和搭载长征5B号运载火箭首飞的新一代载人飞船试验船研制进展情况，与会领导就高速再入返回、重复使用等关键技术进行了详细了解，并就新飞船任务定位、自逃逸设计、试验船方案等问题进行了深入的交流探讨。
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2017年6月10日，中国航天科技集团五院载人航天总体部新飞船团队成员、哈尔滨工业大学航天学院校友代表和紫丁香学生微纳卫星团队代表进行了航天学院院旗搭载飞天移交仪式，据悉院旗将搭载新飞船遨游太空。并拟定新一代多用途载人飞船（试验船）将在2019年左右由长征五号乙火箭从文昌发射升空。

 

[gelgoog]

China to launch unmanned test flight of next-generation crewed spacecraft in 2019

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Appears to be significantly heavier than Shenzhou. Return capsule scale model launched in 2016

Given the improved payload capabilities of Long March 7 (13.5t to LEO) vs the Long March 2F (8.4t to LEO) it was hardly surprising that a new capsule with increased capabilities would eventually be in design.

 

[SciNews]

A Long March-3B rocket launched another pair of BeiDou-3 navigation satellites

So far, China has launched a total of 40 Beidou satellites, and 11 more will be launched in the next two years.