Timeline of China's top 10 space achievements of past decade

4. June 5, 2019

China uses a Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket to perform the country's first seaborne space launch in its territorial waters in the Yellow Sea. Before the seaborne mission, China had conducted more than 310 carrier rocket launches at its four land-based space launch centers.

5. July 25, 2019

Beijing-based space startup i-Space becomes China's first private enterprise to successfully conduct an orbital mission, as the company launches its first SQX-1 carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China to send two satellites and three experimental payloads into space. Two previous attempts by private Chinese companies－LandSpace and One-Space－to conduct orbital launches failed in flight due to malfunctions.