Chinas set a new nationwide record for rocket launches today (Oct. 27) with a satellite launch from the Gobi Desert.The launch was Chinas 40th objective of 2021 and delivered the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F remote noticing satellite into orbit on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket. Its success brings Chinas rocket launch rate beyond the countrys previous record of 39 first set in 2018 and tied in 2020, according to SpaceNews.Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F is a commercial remote noticing satellite and introduced on the solid-fueled Kuaizhou-1A from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert. The liftoff took location at 2:19 a.m. EDT Wednesday (0619 GMT or 2:19 p.m. local time) “and got in the planned orbit,” according to state news service provider Xinhua. Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F remote picking up satellite is joining a growing constellation of dozens of makers run by Chang Guang Satellite.Related: The latest news about Chinas area programA Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches the industrial Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F remote noticing satellite into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Oct. 27, 2021. (Image credit: CCTV) Chinas increased launch pace has actually also meant times when several objectives take off within hours or days for each other. A couple of examples include two objectives that launched 3 hours apart in 2019, an effort that introduced four satellites in two days in 2020, and then a series of 3 launches in four days earlier in 2021.Kuaizhou-1A is run by Expace, an entity under the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp., according to SpaceNews. The launch, the 12th of its type, was postponed momentarily due to a COVID-19 outbreak “near to the testing group,” SpaceNews noted, although this is the 2nd Kuaizhou-1A launch in a month. (The rocket was grounded in 2020 following a launch issue.) SpaceNews keeps in mind that 36 of the 40 launches in 2021 were carried out by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. A few days before Wednesdays launch, the state-owned professional also sent out up a military satellite on a classified objective related to attending to orbital area junk.Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook..
