The Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation reported that according to this indicator, the country came out on top in the world, surpassing the United States
BEIJING, December 30. /tass/. China has set a national record for launching launch vehicles, increasing their number in 2021 by 40% compared to 2020, up to 55 times. This was announced on Thursday by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
According to her page on the WeChat social network, according to this indicator, China came out on top in the world, surpassing the United States. The last launch in 2021 was carried out in China on December 30 at 00:43 Beijing time (19:43 December 29 Moscow time) from the Xichang cosmodrome (southwestern Sichuan province). With the help of the Changzheng-3-be rocket, the Chinese corporation sent an experimental telecommunications satellite Shiyan-9 into orbit from there.
As specified in her statement, 48 of these 55 launches were made by the efforts of the corporation, all of them were recognized as successful.
Beijing is actively developing the national space program, developing meteorological, telecommunications and navigation satellites, as well as technologies for the exploration of the Moon. Chinese scientists are simultaneously carrying out a project to explore asteroids and Mars. The construction of the PRC space station is underway in orbit, which according to the plan should be operational in 2022. In 2020, China carried out 39 launches, sending 103 tons of payload into orbit.
