Maiden flight of the solid-fueled Smart Dragon 3 (Jielong-3), launched from a sea platform in the Yellow Sea carrying 14 satellites, making it the most powerful rocket in China's solid-propellant fleet at the time.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 451 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 12 Smart Dragon 3 flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 2022, 06:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Smart Dragon 3
- Builder
- China Rocket
- Launch site
- Yellow Sea (launch location 4), Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2022-167
- Launches in 2022
- 172nd of 186
See it in orbit
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