15 October 2024, 23:45 UTC
Gaofen-12 05
Placed the Gaofen-12 (05) microwave remote sensing satellite into sun-synchronous orbit; the sub-meter-resolution radar imager supports land surveys, urban planning, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention work.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 56th
- of 60 Long March 4C flights
- Date and time
- 15 October 2024, 23:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 4C
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2024-186
- Launches in 2024
- 192nd of 263
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