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The Long March 3B (Chinese: 长征三号乙; pinyin: Chángzhēng sānhàoyǐ), also known as the CZ-3B and LM-3B, is a Chinese orbital launch vehicle.Introduced in 1996, it is launched from Launch Area 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan.
Intelsat 708 was a telecommunications satellite built by the American company Space Systems/Loral for Intelsat. It was destroyed on 15 February 1996 when the Long March 3B launch vehicle failed while being launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China. The launch vehicle veered off course immediately after liftoff and struck a ...
The launch, on a Long March 3B rocket, was successfully conducted on 5 July 2007. A Chinese Long March 2D launched VRSS-1 (Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite-1) of Venezuela, "Francisco de Miranda" on 29 September 2012.
Long March 3B/E: 3B-Y97 Xichang LC-2 CASC: Weixing Hulianwang Gaogui-02 APT Satellite Holdings / CAST: GTO to Geosynchronous: Communications: In orbit: Operational It is part of the Guowang (Xingwang) constellation. 2 August 05:01 [38] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 10-6 Kennedy LC-39A: SpaceX: Starlink × 23 SpaceX: Low Earth: Communications ...
The four satellites of the Fengyun 1 (or FY-1) class were China's first meteorological satellites placed in polar, Sun-synchronous orbit. [6] In this orbit, FY-1 satellites orbited the Earth at both a low altitude (approximate 900 km above the Earth's surface), and at a high inclination between 98.8° and 99.2° traversing the North Pole every 14 minutes, giving FY-1-class satellites global ...
The satellite was unable to broadcast to its full coverage area. On 18 August 1996, the Long March 3 failed to deploy ChinaSat 7 into geostationary transfer orbit. On 31 August 2009, the Long March 3B failed to deploy Palapa-D into geostationary transfer orbit. The satellite reached the intended orbit with its own propulsion system.
A Chinese weather satellite — the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometers (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kg — was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle. The SC-19 has been described as being based on a modified DF-21 ballistic missile or its commercial derivative, the KT-2 with a Kinetic Kill Vehicle ...
Long March 3B/YZ-1: C57 MEO ~21,500 km, Slot A01 Experiment: BeiDou-3, third generation validation satellite 19 Beidou-3 M2-S C58 MEO ~21,500 km, Slot A06 Experiment: BeiDou-3, third generation validation satellite 20 Beidou-3 I2-S 29 September 2015 23:13 Xichang, LC-3 Long March 3B: C56 55° inclination IGSO 95° E Experiment