Launched Queqiao-2, China's lunar communications relay satellite, along with the Tiandu-1 and Tiandu-2 technology cubesats; Queqiao-2 relays data for the Chang'e-6 far-side sample-return mission and future lunar missions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 6 Long March 8 flights
- Date and time
- 20 March 2024, 00:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 8
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- 201, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2024-051
- Launches in 2024
- 53rd of 263
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