LAUNCH CENTER
Success
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-1Description:
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.
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)