Launch Alert | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander
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Failure
Sun Aug 18 1996
China Aerospace Corporation

Zhongxing 7

Launch Failure
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

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Rocket Details

Name:

Long March 3

Description:

The Long March 3 is a chinese orbital carrier rocket. They all launched from Launch Area 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It is a 3 stage rocket used to put communication satellites into geosynchronous trasfer orbits.

Long March 3 rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Communications
  • ChinaSat 7 or ZX 7 (Zhongxing 7) is a Hughes HS-376 model geostationary telecommunications satellite built for the China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corporation (ChinaSat). It was the first satellite ChinaSat had ordered from a western spacecraft contractor, Hughes Space and Communications International, Inc., known today as Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Pad

Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 )