BeiDou-2 (COMPASS-G2) - China’s second geostationary navigation satellite - has launched from the Xichang satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province, via a CZ-3C Chang Zheng-3C (CZ3C-2) launch vehicle. Lift-off was at 16:16 UTC.

China has launched a new meteorological satellite from its Xi Chang Satellite Launch Center at 00:54UTC on December 23. The Fengyun-2-06 satellite was orbited by a CZ-3A Chang Zheng-3A launch vehicle.

China has launched a new remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The fifth satellite in the YaoGan series was orbited by a CZ-4B Chang Zheng-4B  launch vehicle at 03:22 UTC Monday morning.

China has launched a new remote sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Yaogan-4 satellite was orbited by a CZ-2D Chang Zheng-2D (CZ2D-10) launch vehicle at 04:42UTC.

China has launched its eighth orbital mission this year, orbiting two satellites via a CZ-2D Chang Zheng-2D (CZ2D-9) launch vehicle - from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center’s SLS-2 launch complex. The launch took place at 00:15 UTC on Thursday.

China has launched Venezuelan’s first satellite, Simon Bolivar (or VENESAT-1 - the UN official designation), Wednesday. Simon Bolivar was orbited by a CZ-3B Chang Zheng-3B (CZ3B-11) launch vehicle, which launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 16:53 UTC.

China has launched two new satellites from its Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The Shi Jian-6 Group-03 satellites (SJ-6E Shi Jian-6E and SJ-6F Shi Jian-6F) were launched by a CZ-4B Chang Zheng-4B (CZ4B-12) at 01:15 UTC.

After three years of training and planning, China has launched the Shenzhou-7 mission on Thursday, marking an important step in the Chinese space exploration effort. Lift-off occurred at 9:10 am US Eastern from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The CZ-2F Chang Zheng-2F (CZ2F-7) launch vehicle carrying Shenzhou-7 has a crew of three taikonauts: Jing Haipeng, Zhai Zhigang [...]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) have launched a Delta II carrying the next-generation, sub half-meter Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-1. Lift-off was at 11:50am PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch video available below.
Meanwhile, China launched its first disaster monitoring satellites at 03:25UTC, Saturday - via a CZ-2C Chang Zheng-2C/SMA launch vehicle from the [...]

The third Chinese launch of 2008 has seen the ZX-9 ZhongXing-9 - or ChinaSat-9 - launched into orbit at 12:15 UTC from the XiChang Satellite Launch Center, on the earthquake plagued Sichuan province.
The launch was carried out by a CZ-3B Chang Zheng-3B (CZ3B-10) launch vehicle, from the LC2 launch complex.

A Chinese CZ-4C Chang Zheng-4C launch vehicle - carrying the Feng Yun-3A satellite - has lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center located in the Shanxi province.
The first satellite of the second generation of polar orbiting meteorological satellites was launched at 03:02 UTC. The bird will operate in a 836 km sun-synchronous [...]

The Chinese have launched a new remote sensing satellite - believed to be of a military nature - from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, located on the Shanxi Province, northern China.
The launch of the Yaogan-III satellite took place in the early hours of Monday local time (22:48 UTC Sunday night), separating from its [...]

At the beginning of a 35 minute launch window that opened at 10:05 UTC, a CZ-3A Chang Zheng-3A (CZ3A-15) was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, located in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, carrying the first Chinese lunar probe, Chang’e-1 (ChangEr-1).
This was the 104th successful orbital Chinese launch, the 45th successful orbital launch [...]

China were back in launch action this morning, with the lift-off of a Brazilian observation and remote sensing satellite. The launch was on behalf of the CBERS Program, via their CZ-4B Chang Zheng-4B (Long March-4B) rocket.
Lift-off took place at 03:26 UTC, launching from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. This marks China’s eighth launch [...]

China has launched a new French-built communications satellite using its CZ-3B Chang Zheng-3B launch vehicle.
The launch took place at 20:08 local time on Thursday from the LC2 launch pad at Xichang Satellite Launch Center, marking the 101st launch to be carried out by the Chinese Long March range of vehicles.

The 100th Long March launch vehicle has placed the SinoSat-3 (Xinnuo-3) communications satellite into orbit.
The CZ-3A Chang Zheng-3A (CZ3A-14) rocket was launched at 00:08 Beijing time Friday (1608 UTC, Thursday) from the LC2 launch complex at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, located on the Sichuan province.

Following a number of rumors about a possible military launch from Jiuquan, China has launched a new remote sensing satellite, the Yaogan-II. The launch marked the 100th successful orbital launch for China.
The launch took place at 08:12 GMT on Friday, using a CZ-2D Chang Zheng-2D (CZ2D-8). The first Yaogan satellite was launched from [...]

China is preparing its own Mars probe - Yinghuo-1 - that will hitch-hike a ride to the Red Planet with the Russian Phobus-Grunt probe.
The development of the probe started at the Shangai Academy of Spaceflight in late 2006, and a prototype will be ready by April 2008. The Mars probe will be ready [...]

The Chinese State Council has announced their 11th five-year plan for space exploration, a plan that aims to give priority to manned spaceflight, lunar exploration, a new launch vehicle and high-resolution Earth observation.
Other aspects of the five-year plan are focused on the promotion of industrialization of space technologies, and the encouragement of non-governmental [...]