China launches communications satellite
China today successfully placed a communications satellite into orbit, its Long March 7A rocket lifting off from this coastal Wenchang spaceport.
SpaceX was supposed to have launched a set of Starlink satellites last night as well, but scrubbed the launch about two and a half minutes before launch. It plans to try again tonight.
The leaders in the 2025 launch race:
59 SpaceX
29 China
6 Rocket Lab
5 Russia
SpaceX still leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 59 to 47.
China today successfully placed a communications satellite into orbit, its Long March 7A rocket lifting off from this coastal Wenchang spaceport.
SpaceX was supposed to have launched a set of Starlink satellites last night as well, but scrubbed the launch about two and a half minutes before launch. It plans to try again tonight.
The leaders in the 2025 launch race:
59 SpaceX
29 China
6 Rocket Lab
5 Russia
SpaceX still leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 59 to 47.