15 April 2022, 12:00 UTC
ChinaSat 6D
A Long March 3B launched the ChinaSat 6D (Zhongxing-6D) communications satellite from Xichang into geostationary transfer orbit to provide radio and television broadcast services across China and the Asia-Pacific region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 48th
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 15 April 2022, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3B/E
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2022-038
- Launches in 2022
- 39th of 186
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