A port city in eastern China has launched an ambitious plan to build the country’s fifth rocket launch site, under a longer-term goal to ramp up space infrastructure to meet the demands of an expected boom in commercial missions.
An engineering company in eastern Zhejiang province won a tender on April 1 to construct the launch pad in Ningbo, as well as a section of the command centre and an assembly and testing facility, according to a document posted on the website of the Ningbo Free Trade Zone.
As part of the Zhejiang government’s infrastructure plans for 2021-25, Ningbo will invest 20 billion yuan (US$3 billion) in a rocket launch centre in the county of Xiangshan, or “Elephant Hill”.
The centre will be capable of launching 100 missions a year.
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