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China ran four Qianfan (SpaceSail) launches in nine days, including the debut of the Long March-12B. Across 12 Qianfan launches to date, seven have used the LM-6A (Taiyuan),…
hina launched an LM-2D with four Guowang test satellites (69320–69323) from Xichang; all entered their preset orbits. The launch resembles the 1 April 2025 (HJS-6A–D) and 24 April…
17 May 2026: China launched a Long March-8 with 18 SpaceSail satellites (69104-69121) from Hainan (Wenchang). According to official sources, the 18 satellites constitute the ninth batch of…
29 May 2026: Russia conducted significant plane change maneuvers with 5 Cosmos satellites. Plane change maneuvers are rare in space operations, especially in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) due…
12 May 2026: China launched a Long March-6A with 18 SpaceSail satellites (2026-104A-R, SATNOS not assigned yet) from Taiyuan. According to official sources, the 18 satellites constitute the…
24 Apr 2026: China launched a Long March-2D with four “Satellite Internet Technology Test Satellites” (68831-68834) from Xichang. According to official sources, the satellites entered their preset orbits…
11 Apr 2026: China launched a Smart Dragon-3 (Jielong-3) with one Weixing Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan Weixing (Satellite Internet Technology Test Satellite, Guowang Test Object A) (68687) satellite from…
8 Apr 2026: China launched a Long March-6A with the 21st group of Guowang (China SatNet LEO) satellites from Taiyuan. According to official sources, the 5 satellites (68656-68660)…
7 Apr 2026: China launched a Long March-8 with the seventh group of 18 SpaceSail satellites from Wenchang. According to official sources, the SpaceSail (Qianfan) Constellation, is developed…
14 Apr 2026: China launched a Lijian-1 with 8 Jilin-1 (Gaofen-7) satellites (68691-68698) from Jiuquan. According to CAS Space all satellites were successfully placed into the desired orbits.…
15 Apr 2026: The Financial Times reported that the Iranian military has tasking authority of a Chinese commercial imaging satellite, TEE-01B (60012), and has leveraged this capability to…
16 Mar 2026: China launched an ExSpace Kuaizhou-11 from Jiuquan carrying 8 experimental satellites. The Yuxing-3 06 (HUST-2) (68199) was able to test its on-orbit refueling capabilities, however…
25 Mar 2026: China launched a Long March-2D launch vehicle launched the SuperView Neo-2 05 and SuperView Neo-2 06 (68377 & 68378) remote sensing satellites from Taiyuan. According…
12 Mar 2026: China launched a Long March-8A with the 20th group of Guowang (China SatNet LEO) satellites from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site, Wenchang International Aerospace…
By Dr. Larissa Beavers 2026: CrowdStrike released the 2026 Global Threat Report , which claims that China-linked cyber adversaries’ growing focus on exploiting network perimeter and edge devices—such…
15 Jan 2026: In a recent Satellite Markets and Research article , (Friend of the Flash) Blaine Curcio provided an excellent look a the rapidly evolving satellite communications…
19 Jan 2026: China launched a Long March-12 with Group 19 of the Guowang (SatNet LEO) constellation from Hainan Island (W enchan g) . The launch carried 9…
By Dr. Larissa Beavers 26 Jan 2026: China is accelerating efforts to master reusable rocket technology, a capability critical to lowering launch costs and increasing mission tempo. According…
China conducted two separate LM-8A launches and placed 18 Guowang satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Both of the launches were to 50° inclined orbits and carried 9…
14 Jan 2026: In November 2025 China launched two sets of 3 satellites into nearly co-planar orbits with dozens of Starlink and Amazon LEO satellites. On 8 Nov…
By Dr. Larissa Beavers PBS News reports two NATO intelligence services suspect that Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon specifically designed to disrupt or disable SpaceX’s Starlink satellite…
China conducted three separate launches placing 23 Guowang satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Two of the launches were to 50° inclined orbits while the third was to…
1 Dec 2025: After writing articles related to China’s three YG-40 launches to 86.0° inclination and their 6 launches of Guowang satellites to 86.5° inclined orbits I decided…