LAUNCH CENTER

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Thu Oct 14 2021
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

Xihe (CHASE)

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LAUNCH PREVIEW

Launch Time

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(10:51 AM UTC)

Launch Window Start

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(10:44 AM UTC)

Launch Window End

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(11:12 AM UTC)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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Rocket Details

Name:

Long March 2D

Description:

The Long March 2D, also known as the Chang Zheng 2D, CZ-2D and LM-2D, is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. It is a 2-stage carrier rocket mainly used for launching LEO and SSO satellites.

Long March 2D rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Heliophysics
  • Xihe, also known as the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE), is designed to test a newly developed satellite platform and conduct solar observations. The scientific payload of the satellite is an Hα imaging spectrograph (HIS), which can, for the first time, acquire full-disk spectroscopic solar observations in the Hα waveband. It will complement the observations by on-orbit solar spacecraft (such as SDO, IRIS, STEREO and PSP), as well as future solar missions of the Solar Orbiter and the Chinese Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S). Mission is named Xihe after a solar deity from Chinese mythology.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Taiyuan, People's Republic of China

Pad

Launch Complex 9