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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 ...
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 14 February 1996, the Long March 3B lost its guidance platform and veered off course, hitting a nearby village and killing at least 6 people. 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.
The 300th launch of Long March series rocket. [193] 31 March 2019 15:51 [194] Long March 3B/E F-56 Xichang, LA-2: Successful Tianlian 2-01: Geosynchronous transfer: Communication / Data transfer 20 April 2019 14:41 [195] Long March 3B/E F-57 Xichang, LA-3: Successful BeiDou-3 I1: Geosynchronous transfer: Navigation 29 April 2019 22:52 Long ...
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]
The Long March 3 (Chinese: 长征三号火箭), also known as the Changzheng 3, CZ-3 and LM-3, was a Chinese orbital carrier rocket design. They were all launched from Launch Area 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It was a three-stage rocket, and was mostly used to place DFH-2-class communications satellites into geosynchronous transfer ...
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 ...
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.