On the 30th July 2025, Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time at CNSA –China National Space Administration– Wenchang Space Craft launch Center At 1549 Beijing time, the Long March 8 carrier rocket ignited and took off at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center, . The launch mission was a complete success, marking that China’s first commercial space launch site has the ability to launch dual-stations. This launch is the first launch of the No. 1 launch station of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center, and it is another capability test after the first successful launch of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center…. the Long March 8A Yao 3 rocket ignited and took off from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center
Introduction: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation released a new configuration of the Long March 8 series of carrier rockets in Wuhan. The new configuration is named Long March 8A carrier rocket.
China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan on Wednesday. The satellite group, the sixth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 3:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully.
This afternoon, China successfully launched the satellite internet low-orbit 06 satellite group using the Long March 8A carrier rocket at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center. The satellite smoothly entered the planned orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success. This launch, the Long March 8A rocket achieved a number of technological innovations, including full process automation, active takeoff drift control, and supercooled liquid oxygen refuelling.As an upgraded version of the Long March-8, the 8A variant retains the original model’s core first stage and boosters, while introducing an innovatively developed 3.35-meter-diameter universal hydrogen-oxygen upper stage and a 5.2-meter-diameter payload fairing
The Long March-8A carrier rocket is set for its first launch from No. 1 Pad at the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch situation..
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