12 July 2022, 16:30 UTC
Tianlian 2-03
Long March 3B/E launched Tianlian 2-03, part of China's second-generation Tianlian data-relay constellation, from Xichang into geostationary transfer orbit. It supports real-time communications, including live video, between ground control and the Tiangong space station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 49th
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 2022, 16:30 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
- 2022-078
- Launches in 2022
- 81st of 186
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