APStar-7

Long March 3B/E launched Apstar-7, a Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000 telecommunications satellite for APT Satellite carrying 56 C- and Ku-band transponders, replacing Apstar-2R at 76.5 degrees East.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

4 T

Flight

7th

of 78 Long March 3B/E flights

Date and time

31 March 2012, 10:27 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

Unknown

International designator

2012-013

Launches in 2012

13th of 78

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