{"id":623384,"date":"2025-12-10T03:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623384\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:29:24","slug":"china-breaks-record-with-3-long-march-rocket-launches-in-19-hour-stretch-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623384\/","title":{"rendered":"China breaks record with 3 Long March rocket launches in 19-hour stretch (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

China continues to make big advances in the final frontier.<\/p>\n

The nation just launched three Long March<\/a> rockets in less than 19 hours, setting a new national mark for liftoff cadence.<\/p>\n

In addition, the trio pushed China’s orbital-launch tally for 2025 to 83, extending another record. The previous yearly high for the country, set last year, was 68<\/a>. (Eighty-three is not a global record, however; SpaceX<\/a> has launched 159 orbital missions in 2025 so far by itself.)<\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

\n

\"overhead\n<\/p>\n

A Chinese Long March 4B rocket launches the Yaogan 47 satellite to space from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Dec. 9, 2025. (Image credit: CCTV)<\/p>\n

The flurry began Monday (Dec. 8) at 5:11 p.m. EST (2211 GMT), when a Long March 6A rocket<\/a> lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China. That mission successfully sent a batch of broadband satellites to low Earth orbit<\/a> for the Guowang<\/a> (“national network”) megaconstellation.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Then, at 10:41 p.m. EST on Monday (0341 GMT on Tuesday, Dec. 9), the mysterious Yaogan 47 spacecraft took flight atop a Long March 4B from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert. Yaogan 47 is a classified satellite that will be used by the Chinese military.<\/p>\n

The tripleheader wrapped up on Tuesday at 10:08 a.m. EST (1508 GMT) with the launch of another classified satellite<\/a>, known as TJSW-22, on a Long March 3B from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in western China.<\/p>\n

All three of these launches took place on Tuesday Beijing time, as noted by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the state-owned entity that operates the Long March family of rockets.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n

“This was the third successful launch of China’s Long March rockets today, setting a new record of three launches in one day,” CASC officials said in a statement on Tuesday<\/a>, referring to the TJSW-22 liftoff (in Mandarin; translation by Google).<\/p>\n

A total of five orbital launches have now occurred in the 24-hour stretch beginning with Monday’s Guowang liftoff. The other two were SpaceX Falcon 9<\/a> missions \u2014 a Monday evening flight<\/a> lofted a batch of the company’s Starlink satellites and the NROL-77 launch<\/a> for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office happened on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

That’s not a 24-hour record, however: Between April 28-29 of this year, six different rockets<\/a> launched toward orbit in a span of just 18 hours \u2014 a Long March 5B, two Falcon 9s, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V<\/a>, an Arianespace Vega C and Alpha, a vehicle built and operated by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace. All but Alpha were successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China continues to make big advances in the final frontier. The nation just launched three Long March rockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-623384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115693157400826356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}