12 August 2023, 17:26 UTC
L-SAR4-01 (LTDC-4A)
Sent Ludi Tance 4-01 (L-SAR 4-01), the world's first geosynchronous-orbit synthetic-aperture radar satellite, toward geostationary transfer orbit from Xichang; from about 36,000 km it can continuously image roughly a third of Earth in all weather.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 54th
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 2023, 17:26 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
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2023-120
- Launches in 2023
- 127th of 223
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