16 December 2022, 06:17 UTC
Shiyan 21
Carried the Shiyan 21 technology-demonstration satellite for CASC into low Earth orbit from Xichang. The spacecraft used a largely 3D-printed structural frame, a first for a Chinese satellite, cutting production time by about 40 percent.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 100 kg
- Flight
- 15th
- of 18 Long March 11 flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 2022, 06:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 11
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Mobile Launcher Pad, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2022-172
- Launches in 2022
- 178th of 186
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