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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]
The launch site started construction in July 2022, and is expected to be put into service in 2024. [5] The Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site is built and operated by HICAL, a joint venture of the Hainan government and three state-owned conglomerates. In China, a commercial space center is a site owned by an entity other than the Government ...
A single rocket launch is sufficient for inclusion in the table, as long as the site is properly documented through a reference. Missile locations with no launches are not included in the list. Proposed and planned sites and sites under construction are not included in the main tabulation, but may appear in condensed lists under the tables.
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 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 city of Wenchang on China’s Hainan Island is home to a rocket launch center – and a tourist industry that caters to a growing interest in space-related tourism.
Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site is China's newest space vehicle launch facility. It is the only launch site in China capable of launching China's most powerful rocket Long March 5, which offers the maximum payload capacity into deep space. Tianwen-1, the first mission of PEC, was launched from Wenchang.
On 20 November 2023, CMSA announced that Tianzhou 7 had completed manufacturing, and was delivered to Wenchang. [2] On 21 December 2023, Long March 7 Y8, the launch vehicle for this mission, arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. It started to conduct stacking and tests with the already arrived Tianzhou 7. [3]