Demo Flight (Pujiang-2 & Tiankun-2)

Maiden flight of the Long March 6A, China's first rocket to use solid rocket boosters, lifting off from a new pad at Taiyuan. It carried the Pujiang-2 land-survey satellite and the Tiankun-2 space-environment technology demonstrator.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

2.1 T (est.)

Flight

1st

of 27 Long March 6A flights

Date and time

29 March 2022, 09:50 UTC

Rocket

Long March 6A

Builder

CASC

Launch site

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

Payload

Test Flight

International designator

2022-031

Launches in 2022

32nd of 186

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