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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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The reusable test spacecraft launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on 2022-08-04 (UTC).

PlanValue 3.0May 8, 2023China’s mystery reusable spaceplane lands after 276 days in orbit

A Long March 4C rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 2:27 a.m. Eastern on 2023-03-31.

PlanGeneralValue 2.0Apr 3, 2023China Deploys 4 InSAR Satellites and a New Yaogan Reconnaissance Satellite

The Tianlong-2 lifted off from a transport erector launcher at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 4:48 a.m. Eastern on 2023-04-02.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Apr 3, 2023China’s Space Pioneer reaches orbit with liquid propellant rocket

A Long March 4C rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 2:27 a.m. Eastern on March 31, 2023 carrying the classified Yaogan-34 (04) reconnaissance satellite.

PlanValue 4.0Mar 31, 2023China launches 4 InSAR satellites and new Yaogan reconnaissance sat

A Long March 11 solid rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 7:41 a.m. Eastern on 2023-03-15.

GeneralPlanValue 3.5Mar 15, 2023China launches classified Shiyan-19 test satellite from the Gobi Desert

China launched the classified satellite Shiyan-19 on 2023-03-15 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Mar 15, 2023China launches classified Shiyan-19 test satellite from the Gobi Desert

The Zhuque-2 launch attempt is expected to take place at newly-built launch facilities at the national Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.

PlanGeneralValue 3.5Dec 6, 2022Chinese commercial methane-fueled rocket set for first launch

Shenzhou-15 launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 10:08 a.m. Eastern on 2022-11-29.

PlanGeneralValue 3.5Nov 29, 2022Shenzhou 15 astronauts arrive at China’s space station for first crew handover

Shenzhou-15 will launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on a Long March 2F rocket as early as late November following the arrival of Tianzhou-5 at Tiangong.

PlanGeneralValue 4.3Oct 31, 2022Final module docks at China’s Tiangong space station

Five new Jilin-1 satellites—Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D08 and Gaofen 03D51-54—left the factory and began a journey to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Oct 28, 2022Chinese commercial remote sensing satellite firm to double size of constellation

A Long March 2D rocket launched the Yunhai 1-03 satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 7:15 p.m. Eastern on 2022-09-20, inserting it into a 775 by 780-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.2Sep 27, 2022China conducts trio of orbital launches across two days

A Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 10:24 p.m. Eastern on 2022-09-05.

PlanValue 4.0Sep 6, 2022China performs two launches inside two hours

The suborbital vehicle launched vertically from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on 2022-08-26 Beijing time (2022-08-25 Eastern).

PlanGeneralValue 1.2Aug 26, 2022China makes progress in reusability with secretive second flight of suborbital spaceplane

China launched a reusable experimental spacecraft into orbit on 2022-08-04 using a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.3Aug 4, 2022China launches secretive reusable test spacecraft

China launched the quantum satellite Jinan 1 on a Lijian quick response rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert as one of six satellites on the same launch.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jul 31, 2022China launches new satellite in ‘important step’ towards global quantum communications network

China expanded the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to host solid and liquid commercial rockets.

GrowthCapabilityValue 4.0Jun 30, 2022China looks to launch liquid propellant rockets from the seas

Gaofen-12 03 was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

PlanGeneralValue 2.2Jun 27, 2022China’s newest EO satellite carried aloft by a Long March 4C rocket

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center was established in 1958 and is the first of China’s four national spaceports to be constructed.

GeneralValue 3.0Jun 14, 2022Explosion at Chinese space launch center revealed by satellite imagery

Shenzhou-14 launched atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2022-06-05.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Jun 5, 2022China launches 3 astronauts to complete work on the nation’s Tiangong space station

The fourth Hyperbola-1 launch from iSpace lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 3:09 a.m. Eastern on 2022-05-13.

PlanGeneralValue 3.5May 13, 2022Chinese rocket company suffers third consecutive launch failure
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