Second flight of China's Smart Dragon 3 (Jielong-3) solid rocket, lifting off from a sea platform in the South China Sea off Yangjiang and delivering satellite-internet technology test satellites to orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 300 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 12 Smart Dragon 3 flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 2023, 19:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Smart Dragon 3
- Builder
- China Rocket
- Launch site
- South China Sea (launch location 1), Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2023-190
- Launches in 2023
- 201st of 223
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