{"id":430497,"date":"2026-01-24T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:29:07","slug":"china-cancels-rocket-launches-after-failures-but-will-the-long-march-10a-still-lift-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430497\/","title":{"rendered":"China cancels rocket launches after failures \u2013 but will the Long March-10A still lift off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported on Friday that nearly all the rocket launches scheduled next month for the Wenchang space centre in the southern province of Hainan had been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOnly the test flight for a new type of rocket on February 11 [remains],\u201d the Changsha-based newspaper quoted a space port staff member as saying.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">No official reason was given, but in a social media post, travel agency Muxi Holiday said three scheduled launches on February 9, 19 and 24 had been cancelled, forcing changes to trips to view the events.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The launches have become a tourist drawcard in Hainan and internet users had complained online that their plans to view the launches had been abruptly called off.<\/p>\n<p>A hostel in the township of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1981496\/sleepy-longlou-countdown-becoming-cape-kennedy-hainan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Longlou<\/a> on the island\u2019s east coast suggested on its social media account that the February 11 launch could be related to the Long March-10A rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported on Friday that nearly all the rocket launches scheduled next month for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,94447,69410,54761,95,138433,76278,50251,48748,61004,50249,114827,45633,6639,66,101511,306,45636,179402,175999],"class_list":["post-430497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ceres-2","tag-cgtn","tag-changsha","tag-china","tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","tag-china-national-space-administration","tag-galactic-energy","tag-hainan","tag-inner-mongolia","tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","tag-long-march-3b","tag-long-march-10a","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-sichuan","tag-space","tag-tiangong-space-station","tag-wenchang-space-centre","tag-xichang-satellite-launch-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}