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The Long March 3B and its variants remain in active use as of January 2021, having conducted a total of 26 consecutive successful launches, since 19 June 2017 until 9 March 2020. In December 2013, a Long March 3B/E successfully lifted Chang'e 3, China's first Lunar lander and rover into the projected lunar-transfer orbit. In April 2020, the ...
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.
100th consecutive successful launch of a Long March rocket since the Long March 3B launch failure in 2020. 4 August 2022 ~16:00 [103] Long March 2F/T 2F-T4 Jiuquan SLS-1: Successful Reusable Experimental Spacecraft: Low Earth: CASC: Technology demonstration: Second flight of the Reusable Experimental Spacecraft.
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]
List of Long March launches (2020–2024) List of Long March launches (2025–2029) L. Long March 1; ... Long March 3B/E; Long March 3C; Long March 4; Long March 4A;
Long March 3B/E 3B-Y70 Xichang LC-3: CASC: Gaofen 14: SASTIND: Low Earth (SSO) Earth observation: In orbit: Operational First Long March 3B launch to Sun-synchronous orbit. 6 December 16:17:08 [322] Falcon 9 Block 5: F9-101 Kennedy LC-39A: SpaceX: SpaceX CRS-21: NASA: Low Earth ISS logistics: 14 January 2021: Successful Nanoracks Bishop Airlock ...
Long March 3B: Operational TJS 5 Huoyan-1 02 7 January 2020 Missile warning: 6,780.9 km × 35,808.5 km 0.2° 44978 2020-002A: XSLC: Long March 3B: Operational TJS 6 Huoyan-1 03 4 February 2021 Missile warning: 35,789.0 km × 35,796.7 km 0.4° 47613 2021-010A: XSLC: Long March 3B: Operational TJS 7 Huoyan-1 04 24 August 2021 Missile warning ...
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