16 December 2024, 10:00 UTC
SatNet LEO Group 01
Inaugural launch of China's Guowang national broadband megaconstellation, lofting the first 10 satellites into a roughly 1,100 km polar orbit; the Yuanzheng-2 upper stage placed the payloads directly, sparing the Long March 5B core its usual uncontrolled reentry.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Long March 5B/YZ-2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 2024, 10:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 5B/YZ-2
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- 101, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2024-240
- Launches in 2024
- 247th of 263
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