{"id":261830,"date":"2026-01-24T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:42:07","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\/ie\/261830\/","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":261831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[41934,4486,129516,114,90537,17542,3745,99148,61,5700,60,90536,65801,129514,3589,82,50250,247,16883,129515,126417],"class_list":{"0":"post-261830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ceres-2","9":"tag-cgtn","10":"tag-changsha","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","13":"tag-china-national-space-administration","14":"tag-galactic-energy","15":"tag-hainan","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-inner-mongolia","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","20":"tag-long-march-3b","21":"tag-long-march-10a","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-science","24":"tag-sichuan","25":"tag-space","26":"tag-tiangong-space-station","27":"tag-wenchang-space-centre","28":"tag-xichang-satellite-launch-centre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}