In 2017, China continued using its four spaceports for orbital launches: Jiuquan, Taiyuan, Wenchang, and Xichang. The spaceports were involved in a total of 18 launch attempts. Jiuquan and Xichang swapped share rankings for 2017, with Xichang the site of 45% of China’s SLV launch attempts (8) and Ji...