A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China. The probe will attempt to collect samples from asteroid 2016 HO3 and if all goes well ...

A Long March 3B carrier rocket carrying an experimental satellite, named Communication Technology Demonstrator 9, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Dec. 30, 2021© Liu Guoxing ...

Update: The Long March 3B rocket carrying Tianwen-2 successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China’s Sichuan province at 1:31 P.M. EDT on Wednesday, May 28.

A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The Long March 3B Y110 rocket lifted off toward the near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa and is expected to take a year to ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 probe on a more than two-year mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and return samples to Earth. The probe launched at 1:31 a.m. local time May 29 aboard a Long ...

The Tianwen-2 mission launched aboard a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province at 1:31 p.m. ET on Wednesday (1:31 a.m. Thursday local time in China ...

The Long March 3B rocket lifted off at about 1:31 a.m. from the Xichang satellite launch center carrying the Tianwen-2 robotic probe.

The Tianwen 2 spacecraft lifted off atop a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China today (May 28) at 1:31 p.m. EDT (1731 GMT; 1:31 a.m. Beijing time on May 29).