China cranks out a second Long March-2D launch 2 days of first

JUST IN: Today’s Epic night time launch of Long March-2D rocket is just eye watering good. 🚀 Long March 2D Y81 launched Yaogan-36 (a group of 3 satellites) from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at ~20:02UTC on July 26. This is the 150th consecutive successful launch of a Long March rocket. This makes it 10 such Chinese triplets for the YG-35/36 group in 500 km 35 degrees inclination LEOs, plus another 10 of the YG-30 series in slightly higher 590 km orbits. That’s more launches used than even OneWeb did! We can all speculate what they are doing up there. #chinaspace #longmarch2d #yaogan36