29 September 2012, 04:12 UTC
VRSS-1
Carried Venezuela's VRSS-1 (Francisco de Miranda) Earth observation satellite, the country's first satellite of this kind, built with Chinese assistance under a CGWIC commercial contract.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 880 kg
- Flight
- 17th
- of 101 Long March 2D flights
- Date and time
- 29 September 2012, 04:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 2D
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2012-052
- Launches in 2012
- 55th of 78
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