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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.
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 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.
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 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.
The space program of the People's Republic of China is about the activities in outer space conducted and directed by the People's Republic of China.The roots of the Chinese space program trace back to the 1950s, when, with the help of the newly allied Soviet Union, China began development of its first ballistic missile and rocket programs in response to the perceived American (and, later ...
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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 ...