China says its Long March 7A rocket fails to deliver the ChinaSat-4B satellite after an in-flight anomaly. The rocket launches from the Wenchang space launch site in Hainan, China’s southern island province, and the company reports the problem occurs after liftoff.
Channel NewsAsia adds that the Monday mission, held on Aug. 10, is the Long March 7A’s first failure since an unsuccessful maiden flight in March 2020. Together, the reports focus on the same launch, the same rocket and satellite, and attribute the failure to an anomaly detected during flight shortly after takeoff. The outlets differ mainly in the added context about prior performance, rather than the basic account of what happened on the mission.
