This is a practice flight. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is flying a Long March 10A from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to learn whether the rocket behaves. The cargo matters, and so does the simple question: did it work?
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is flying a Long March 10A from 301, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China. Mission: Demo Flight. First test launch of CASC/CALT’s Long March 10A rocket. Payload is expected to be a prototype of the mission version of the Mengzhou crew spacecraft. Planned orbit: Unknown. Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources. The published time can still slip. Rockets wait for weather, boats, and the range.
Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.
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Too far to see
You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 7,739 miles northwest. The broadcast is the view.
That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway. The clock is still loose, so daylight is a guess.
Space jobs corner
Who is on this flight
Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.
Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.
Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.
Put it on a calendar
So the slip still finds you
A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.
