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Launched a classified Yaogan-series remote-sensing reconnaissance satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on a Long March 4B into sun-synchronous orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

3 T (est.)

Flight

47th

of 58 Long March 4B flights

Date and time

27 December 2022, 07:37 UTC

Rocket

Long March 4B

Builder

CASC

Launch site

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

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2022-176

Launches in 2022

183rd of 186

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