9 November 2023, 11:23 UTC
ChinaSat 6E
Launched ChinaSat-6E (Zhongxing-6E), a C- and Ku-band broadcast communications satellite, into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Xichang. Built on the DFH-4E bus, it took over radio and television broadcasting duties from the older ChinaSat-6B.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 55th
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 9 November 2023, 11:23 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
- 2023-172
- Launches in 2023
- 182nd of 223
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