China reached 92 orbital launches in 2025 with back-to-back missions this week, capping a record year for both the country and the global space sector.

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China launched the latest in a series of experimental, often opaque satellites Sunday, while the debut flight of the commercial Zhuque-3 faces a delay.

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China carried out two launches Monday, sending a new reconnaissance satellite into an unexpected orbit and adding 11 spacecraft to automaker Geely’s commercial constellation.

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China has continued an uptick in launch activity with a Long March 7A mission to geosynchronous orbit and sea launch of a Ceres-1 solid rocket.

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HELSINKI — China launched the new TJS-16 classified satellite on Saturday aboard a Long March 7A rocket, continuing the opaque series of experimental missions. A Long March 7A rocket lifted […]

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HELSINKI — China launched a new communications satellite towards the geostationary belt Thursday, but revealed very little information about the spacecraft. A Long March 7A lifted off from Wenchang Satellite […]

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China conducted its first two launches of 2023 over the weekend, sending three classified payloads into geosynchronous transfer orbit and five commercial satellites into sun-synchronous orbits.

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China launched a Long March 7A rocket Tuesday, successfully inserting the Zhongxing-1E satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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China launched a new-generation Long March 7A rocket Thursday, successfully sending a pair of Shiyan-12 test satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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China launched a new-generation Long March 7A rocket Thursday, sending a classified, experimental payload into geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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China has quietly rolled a new-generation Long March 7A rocket at Wenchang ahead of a launch as soon as late March 10 Eastern.

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China's attempt to launch the first Long March 7A rocket ended in failure Monday, resulting in a classified satellite failing to enter geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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China has quietly rolled out a new Long March 7A rocket at a coastal launch site in preparation for launch of a ‘technology verification satellite’.

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