China’s CASIC reveals five-year plan for reusable spaceplane, commercial space projects

Chinese large state-owned enterprise CASIC laid out a new set of commercial space plans for the next five years at a conference Monday.

Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket launch ends in failure

Launch of a Kuaizhou-1A satellite carrying a remote sensing satellite has ended in ambiguity and likely failure following liftoff from Jiuquan.

First launch of Chinese Kuaizhou-11 rocket ends in failure

Launch of a new Chinese Kuaizhou-11 commercial solid rocket ended in failure Friday resulting in the loss of two satellites.

Chinese commercial rocket sells for $5.6 million in April Fool’s Day auction

A Chinese commercial Kuaizhou-1A rocket sold for $5.6 million in a live streamed auction hosted by e-commerce platform Taobao Wednesday.

China launches Yinhe-1 commercial low Earth orbit 5G satellite

HELSINKI — China carried out its second orbital launch in just over 24 hours late Wednesday, sending the Yinhe-1 commercial 5G satellite into low Earth orbit.

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China carries out 2 orbital launches inside 3 hours

China launches six remote sensing satellites into orbit with two launches inside three hours from sites in north China.

Chinese commercial launch companies are preparing second-generation rockets

Chinese launch companies are developing new, larger launchers; asteroid mining startup receives angel round funding.

New Chinese commercial-launch company advertises high launch rate, low price

A Chinese commercial launch-service provider created earlier this year to bid for small-satellite business worldwide expects to launch an average 10 of its Kuaizhou solid-fueled rockets per year between 2017 and 2020, the company said Nov. 29.