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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: Y104 Xichang LC-3 Successful Shijian 25 Geostationary transfer: CNSA: Technology verification: Verification of satellite life-extension technologies, including on-orbit fuel replenishment 17 January 2025 4:07 [1] [3] Long March 2D: Y101 Jiuquan SLS-2 [4] Successful Bajisitan PRSC-E01 巴基斯坦PRSC-EO1 Sun-synchronous
On 18 August 2011, the Long March 2C lost attitude control. On 9 December 2013, the Long March 4B experienced an early shutdown of its third stage and failed to reach orbit. On 31 August 2016, the Long March 4C failed to reach orbit. On 2 July 2017, the Long March 5 experienced an anomaly in its first stage and failed to reach orbit.
ChinaSat 8, which had been scheduled for launch in April 1999 on a Long March 3B rocket, [12] was placed in storage, sold to the Singapore company ProtoStar, and finally launched on a European rocket Ariane 5 in 2008. [11] From 2005 to 2012, Long March rockets launched ITAR-free satellites made by the European company Thales Alenia Space. [13]
China's Long March 12, capable of sending bigger satellites with more functionalities into the Earth's orbit, is expected to make its debut flight in 2024, in a year of record launch missions for ...
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2 or LA-2), located at , and used for launching Long March 2E, Long March 3A, Long March 3B [15] [16] and Long March 3C Launch Complex 3 (LC-3 or LA-3) , also known as LA-1 , and located at 28°14′50″N 102°01′45″E / 28.2471400°N 102.0291100°E / 28.2471400; 102.0291100 ( Launch Complex 3 (LC-3 or
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 ...
The dramatic footage surfaced online shortly after a Long March 2C carrier rocket blasted off at 3p.m. local time Saturday (3 a.m. Eastern Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the ...