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A Chinese rocket crashed after being accidentally launched during a ground test Sunday, its company Space Pioneer said in a statement. The crash happened when the first stage of the Tianlong-3 ...
A Chinese space startup accidentally launched a rocket on Sunday, resulting in a massive explosion.. Beijing-based Space Pioneer was performing a ground-based test of its Tianlong-3 rocket in ...
In April 2023, Space Pioneer launched a kerosene-oxygen rocket, the Tianlong-2, becoming the first private Chinese firm to send a liquid-propellant rocket into space. Chinese commercial space ...
Launch explosion of Kosmos-3M rocket 18 March 1980: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR: 48: Vostok-2M launch vehicle: Explosion while fueling up a Vostok-2M rocket [104] 7 September 1990: Edwards AFB, CA United States: 1: Titan IV: A Titan IV launch vehicle solid rocket booster was being hoisted by a crane into a rocket test stand at Edwards AFB ...
In 1992 and 1993, Space Systems/Loral received licenses from the United States Department of State to launch Intelsat satellites on Chinese rockets. At that time, satellite components were still under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR); they would be transferred in stages to the U.S. Department of Commerce between 1992 and 1996. [1]
On 11 January 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C (COSPAR 1999-025A) polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kilograms (1,650 lb) [1] —was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s (18,000 mph) in the opposite direction [2] (see Head-on ...
Suspected debris from a Chinese rocket was seen plummeting to the ground over a village in southwest China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running ...
A fourth launch attempt on May 13, 2022, was unsuccessful as well. [9] In April 2023, i-Space performed a fifth launch of the Hyperbola-1 which successfully reached orbit without a payload , [12] and then followed with another launch on 17 December 2023 that placed the DEAR-1 satellite from Chinese company Azspace into a 500 kilometre SSO orbit ...