China’s Long March 6 rocket launches remote sensing satellite
China yesterday successfully launched a classified remote sensing satellite, its Long March 6 rocket lifting off from its Taiyuan spaceport in the northeast of China.
No word on where the rocket’s four solid-fueled strap-on boosters and liquid-fueld core stage crashed inside China.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
30 SpaceX
13 China
4 Rocket Lab
4 Russia
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 35 to 23, while SpaceX still leads the entire world, including American companies, 30 to 28.
China yesterday successfully launched a classified remote sensing satellite, its Long March 6 rocket lifting off from its Taiyuan spaceport in the northeast of China.
No word on where the rocket’s four solid-fueled strap-on boosters and liquid-fueld core stage crashed inside China.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
30 SpaceX
13 China
4 Rocket Lab
4 Russia
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 35 to 23, while SpaceX still leads the entire world, including American companies, 30 to 28.