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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
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]
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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 exhibition — which opens March 9 and will continue through Sept. 2 at COSI — presents about 240 actual artifacts retrieved from the site of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912 after ...
The public's fascination with the Titanic spans generations — and there's no question as to why. The $7.5 million (over $200 million today) luxury ocean liner was a representation of grandeur ...