China's launch tempo: Guowang + Yaogan-40 up, "intense Q4" manifest

2026-10-01 Space

From the Space digest for 2026-10-01

China completed its ninth and tenth launches of September — Guowang (state constellation) and Yaogan-40 satellites on a Long March 8A — ahead of what SpaceNews's Helsinki desk calls an intense Q4 finish. Continuation of the china-launch-tempo watch; the constellation-demand side (Guowang is the buildout Falcon-9-equivalent for Chinese constellations).

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