LAUNCH CENTER

Launch Image
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Thu Sep 19 2024
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

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Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW

Launch Time

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(1:14 AM UTC)

Launch Window Start

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(12:54 AM UTC)

Launch Window End

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(1:30 AM UTC)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Long March 3B/YZ-1

Description:

The Long March 3B is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. Introduced in 1996, it is launched from Launch Area 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan. A three-stage rocket with four strap-on liquid rocket boosters, it is currently the most powerful member of the Long March rocket family and the heaviest of the Long March 3 rocket family, and is mainly used to place communications satellites into geosynchronous orbits.

Long March 3B/YZ-1 rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Unknown
  • Possible launch of Beidou navigation satellites; details TBD.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Pad

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)