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How to watch Long March 6A launch

Fri, Oct 23, 6:15 PM GMT+8

Fri, Oct 23, 10:15 UTC · launch window 21 minutes

Long March 6A · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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How firm is the date: Go for launch (confirmed by the provider)
Date history: No date change recorded for this launch.
At the pad when the window opens: Twilight launch, dark sky. The sky is dark at the ground, but sunlight still reaches the exhaust plume high above. These are the launches that can produce the glowing, spreading "jellyfish" plumes, if the sky is clear.

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What to expect

We have not checked this mission's landing plan by hand. If a booster flies back to a landing zone on land, its landing brings a sonic boom; the provider's mission page says where the booster lands.
Sound travels about a kilometre every 3 seconds (a mile every 5), so at a distance you see liftoff before you hear it.

Will it go on time?

A launch date is a "no earlier than" target. Weather, a technical hold, the range or a boat in the hazard area can each stop a count on the day, and the provider then names a new time. We do not publish launch odds we cannot back; here is what we recorded.

2 launches have flown from Taiyuan since we started recording date changes on Aug 29, 2026; 0 of them had the date or time moved at least once after we first recorded it, and 0 slipped by a day or more. That is too few launches to call it a rate.
Of the 38 launches that have flown from every site we track since we started recording date changes on Aug 29, 2026, 24 (63%) had the date or time moved at least once after we first recorded it, and 6 (16%) slipped by a day or more.

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Launch time, status and pad: the Launch Library 2 manifest as synced by SpaceNexus; times move, and this page follows them.
Day or night: computed from the sun's position at the pad at the time shown. Distances: computed from coordinates.

The launch page: countdown, stream, date history →Every Taiyuan launch this month →Which launches slip, and by how much →

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