9 May 2024, 01:43 UTC
ZHTW 1-01
A Long March 3B with a YZ-1 upper stage launched from Xichang carrying Smart SkyNet-1 01, China's first medium Earth orbit broadband communications satellite, the initial member of a planned eight-satellite constellation at roughly 20,000 km altitude.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 57th
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 9 May 2024, 01:43 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
- 2024-087
- Launches in 2024
- 89th of 263
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