Barrage: China Conducts 4 Qianfan Launches in 9 Days
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),…
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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…
China launched an LM-5 with extended fairing carrying TJS-25 (69474) from Wenchang. Per official sources, it reached the planned orbit and “will be mainly used to carry out…
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…
26 May 2026: China launched a Long March-7A with TJS-24 (69235) from Wenchang. According to official sources, the satellite entered the preset orbit successfully and “will be mainly…
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…
30 April 2026: Russia launched the first Soyuz-5 launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. There was a mass-simulator on board, no active satellites. The launch was sub-orbital…
23 April 2026: Russia launched an Angara-1.2 from Plesetsk with Cosmos 2615, 2616, 2617, & 2618 (68826-29). All four satellites are OO-MKA imagery satellites and join 6 others…
17 April 2026: Russia launched a Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifted off from Plesetsk with multiple spacecraft for the Ministry of Defense. Announcement of the pending launch was delayed due…
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.…
27 Mar 2026: China launched a Long March-2C with the Yuanzheng-1S upper stage with the Shiyan-33 satellite (SY-33) (68405) from the Jiuquan. According to official sources, the satellite…
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…
23 Mar 2026: Russia launched a Soyuz 2.1b from Plesetsk carrying 16 Rassvet 3 satellites (68360-68376) to Low Earth Orbit. Russia did release NOTAMs for the launch, however…
3 Apr 2026: Russia launched a Soyuz 2.1a with Fregat-M upperstage with the Meridian 11 satellite (either 68571 or 68572, not certain which yet) from Plesetsk. This is…
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…
15 Mar 2026: China launched a LM-6A with the Yaogan-50 02 (68196) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. According to official sources, the satellite “will be used for…
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…
13 Mar 2026: China launched a Long March-2D carrying the Shiyan-30 03-04 satellites (68139 & 68140) from Xichang. The launch comes 6 months after the China launched SY-30…
6 Mar 2026: Russia launched a Proton-M, with a DM-03 upper stage, with the Elektro-L No.5 (67756) meteorological satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on 12 February 2026. Elektro-L…
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…