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WENCHANG SPACE LAUNCH SITE, China — China launched an uncrewed lunar spacecraft Friday in a first-of-its-kind mission to bring back samples from the far side of the moon, the latest step in a ...
The heavy-lift Long March 8A blasted off for its maiden flight at 5:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, carrying a group of low-Earth ...
The Long March-5, China's largest rocket, blasted off at 5:27 p.m. Beijing time (0927 GMT) from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan with the more than 8 metric ton Chang ...
At 19 degrees north latitude, the Wenchang Space Launch Site is located on the Chinese island of Hainan, which is the nearest to the equator among Chinese territories.Low-latitude locations are desirable for space launch sites due to the higher speed of rotation closer to the equator, as well as the smaller inclination change maneuver needed to reach geosynchronous orbit. [10]
Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co., Ltd., or HICAL, is a Chinese state-owned company that operates the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site, China's first commercial spaceport. Established in 2022, HICAL is the first commercially incorporated company in China to independently own and manage a spaceport.
Tianzhou 7 (Chinese: 天 舟 七 号) was the seventh mission of the Tianzhou-class uncrewed cargo spacecraft, and the sixth resupply mission to the Tiangong Space Station. Like previous Tianzhou missions, the spacecraft was launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan, China, on a Long March 7 rocket.
A general view shows the launch platform for the Chang’e-6 mission of the China Lunar Exploration Programme at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China’s Hainan Province on 2 May ...
Wenchang LC-1 CASC: Tianwen-3 orbiter CNSA: Areocentric: Mars sample-return Tianwen-3 reentry capsule CNSA: Areocentric: Mars sample-return Chinese Mars sample-return mission. 2030 (TBD) [27] Long March 10: Wenchang: CASC: Mengzhou: CNSA: Selenocentric: Crewed lunar landing Delivery of the Mengzhou next-generation crewed spacecraft for China's ...