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Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

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酒泉卫星发射中心

The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC), founded in 1958, is China's oldest spaceport and a key facility in its space program. Located in the Gobi Desert, it primarily launches vehicles into low and medium Earth orbits with high orbital inclination angles. JSLC has supported many of China's space milestones, including their first satellite launch (Dong Fang Hong I) and crewed missions (Shenzhou program) and continues to support launches to the Tiangong space station. It features state-of-the-art facilities and is used by organizations like CASC and CAS Space.

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A Long March 2D rocket topped with a Yuanzheng-3 restartable upper stage lifted off at 2:17 a.m. Eastern (0717 UTC) 2024-12-12 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Dec 13, 2024China launches “laser diamond constellation test” satellites

The Zhuque-2 enhanced version (ZQ-2E) lifted off from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Area at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:00 p.m. Eastern 2024-11-26 (0200 UTC 2024-11-27).

PlanGeneralValue 3.0Nov 27, 2024Landspace puts 2 satellites in orbit with enhanced Zhuque-2 rocket

A Long March 2C rocket launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 6:39 p.m. Eastern (2339 UTC) on 2024-11-24.

PlanValue 4.0Nov 25, 2024China launches pair of SuperView Neo-2 radar satellites

A Chinese commercial Lijian-1 (Kinetica-1) solid rocket launched at 11:03 p.m. Eastern on 2024-11-10 (0403 UTC, 2024-11-11) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

PlanGeneralValue 3.5Nov 11, 2024Chinese commercial Lijian-1 rocket launches 15 satellites

A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 10:39 p.m. Eastern on 2024-11-08 (0339 UTC, Nov. 9) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.

PlanValue 4.5Nov 9, 2024Long March 2C launches 4 PIESAT-2 commercial radar satellites

A Long March 2F rocket launched the Shenzhou-19 crew spacecraft from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2024-10-29, lifting off at 4:27 p.m. Eastern.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Oct 30, 2024Shenzhou-19 spacecraft arrives at Tiangong for crew rotation

The Zhuque-3 VTVL-1 reusable vertical take-off and landing recovery verification rocket lifted off from Landspace facilities at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at around 12:00 a.m. Eastern (0400 UTC) on 2024-09-11.

PlanGeneralValue 4.2Sep 11, 2024Landspace completes 10-kilometer reusable rocket test, eyes 2025 orbital launch

Landspace conducted a 10-kilometer vertical liftoff, vertical landing (VTVL) test at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2024-09-11.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Sep 11, 2024Landspace completes 10-kilometer reusable rocket test, eyes 2025 orbital launch

Space Pioneer previously planned to construct a launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

PlanValue 2.0Jun 6, 2024Space Pioneer raises $207 million for reusable rocket

Shenzhou-18 launched on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 8:59 a.m. Eastern (1259 UTC).

PlanGeneralValue 4.3Apr 25, 2024China’s Shenzhou-18 crew arrive at Tiangong space station

A Long March 2D rocket launched the SuperView-3 (01) satellite from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 12:12 a.m. Eastern on 2024-04-15 (0412 UTC).

PlanValue 4.0Apr 15, 2024China launches commercial SuperView-3 remote sensing sat

A Long March 2D rocket with a Yuanzheng-3 (YZ-3) upper stage lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 0527 UTC on March 21, 2024.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Mar 21, 2024China launches second batch of Yunhai-2 satellites

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2023-12-14 to begin the third flight of a Chinese experimental reusable spaceplane.

PlanValue 3.6Jan 31, 2024China’s secretive spaceplane raises its orbit, but yet to deploy satellites

Just two days after the January 9 incident, China conducted two more satellite launches, one from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and another from a location at sea near Shandong Province, neither of which passed near Taiwan.

PlanValue 3.8Jan 29, 2024Space-related incidents during Taiwan’s elections

A Lijian-1 Y3 carrier rocket carrying five satellites launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on 2024-01-23.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Jan 28, 2024China launches commercial Lijian-1 Y3 carrier rocket

Landspace executed a first vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) test with the Zhuque-3 VTVL-1 test article at a launch and recovery site at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2024-01-19 at 0800 UTC (3:00 a.m. Eastern).

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Jan 19, 2024China’s Landspace conducts first VTVL test for reusable stainless steel rocket

The Kuaizhou-1A rocket carrying Tianxing-1 02 lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert at 11:52 a.m. Beijing Time on 2024-01-11.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Jan 11, 2024China’s Tianxing-1 02 satellite launches on Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket

The two Chinese commercial liquid propellant launchers to fly so far—Zhuque-2 and Tianlong-2—have launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

PlanGeneralValue 2.8Jan 5, 2024China completes new commercial launch pad to boost access to space

China launched three low Earth orbit broadband test satellites on 2023-12-29 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March 2C rocket that lifted off at 7:13 p.m. local time (0013 UTC, 2023-12-30).

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.5Dec 31, 2023Chinese satellite internet mission rounds off record year for global launches

China launched an experimental reusable spacecraft on 2023-12-14 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March 2F rocket.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 14, 2023China launches mystery reusable spaceplane for third time
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