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China’s Long March 7A rocket successful on second flight – Spaceflight Now – Spaceflight Now
China’s Long March 7A rocket lifts off from the Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island. Credit: Xinhua
The second flight of China’s new medium-lift Long March 7A rocket successfully placed an experimental satellite into orbit Thursday, following a failed launch of the same configuration last year caused by a problem in a booster liquid oxygen system.
The Long March 7A rocket took off from the Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island in southern China at 12:51 p.m. EST (1751 GMT) Thursday, or 1:51 a.m….
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