SpaceSail launches a new satellite group from Taiyuan on a modified Long March-6
SpaceSail
Another SpaceSail constellation batch, launched a day before a second group flew from Hainan.
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what happened
A modified Long March-6 lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 5:30 p.m. Beijing Time on July 4 and placed a new satellite group for the Spacesail Constellation into its preset orbit, per Xinhua, which describes the network as a mega commercial Chinese low-orbit system. The satellite count was not stated; the flight was the 655th Long March mission.
why it matters
Published for the cadence record under the 2026-07-12 launch ruling: buildout pace is the operating metric behind China's leading Starlink challenger, and this batch plus the Hainan launch a day later shows the program flying from multiple sites on consecutive days.
signal-to-noise
MULTI-SOURCE
3/5
leadtier 3 of 5 on its owncorrob-1 earned from 1 rule
calculation
3base tier 3 from lead source class "mainstream" (Xinhua) english.news.cn-1corroboration crawl ran and found nothing+1survived uncontested past the persistence window (caps at 4)
= 3current score, recomputed by the engine on every change
movements
2→32026-07-26 · survived uncontested past the persistence window (caps at 4)
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quick facts
- Companies
- SpaceSail
- Category
- launch
- Impact
- noise
- SNR
- 3 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-07-04
- Published
- 2026-07-12 09:19 UTC