SpaceSail Polar Group #4

Carried the fourth batch of 18 Qianfan (Thousand Sails) broadband satellites to polar orbit for Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology, launching from Taiyuan amid heavy snow and temperatures near minus 30 C.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

PO

Polar orbit

Payload to orbit

5.4 T (est.)

Flight

10th

of 27 Long March 6A flights

Date and time

23 January 2025, 05:15 UTC

Rocket

Long March 6A

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 9A, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Communications

International designator

2025-016

Launches in 2025

17th of 329

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