A Long March 6 carrier rocket carrying the satellite Tianping 3A-02 blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province, April 3, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] China ...

China sent a new satellite into space on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The satellite, Tianping-3A 02, was launched at 10:12 a.m. (Beijing Time ...

A Long March 2D rocket carrying a test satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, on April 1, 2025. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo/For chinadaily.com.cn] JIUQUAN ...

A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 12:17 p.m. Eastern (1717 UTC) March 9 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC ...

China’s launch of a cluster of 18 satellites ... project – a rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service run by the Chinese company Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology.

While the planet now has global low Earth orbiting coverage from Elon Musk’s Starlink, China is quietly getting on with its own rival scheme, in the shape of its Qianfan (Thousand Sails) satellite ...

China has launched a new experimental communications satellite into low-Earth orbit, marking the country’s latest step in ...

China increased its military spending by 7% this year, stockpiling anti-satellite missiles and claiming to possess directed energy weapons that use concentrated energy beams to jam satellite signals.