23 February 2023, 11:49 UTC
ChinaSat 26
Launched ChinaSat-26 (Zhongxing-26), China's first high-throughput communications satellite exceeding 100 Gbps of capacity, into geostationary transfer orbit from Xichang. It was China's first orbital launch after a pause for the Lunar New Year.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 52nd
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 23 February 2023, 11:49 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
- 2023-023
- Launches in 2023
- 25th of 223
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