BDS I1-S

Launched China's first third-generation BeiDou navigation satellite, Beidou-3 I1-S (Beidou-17), a validation spacecraft for the next-generation BDS-3 constellation. The mission was also the debut flight of the Yuanzheng-1 (YZ-1) restartable upper stage, used for direct MEO insertion.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

1.2 T (est.)

Flight

1st

of 3 Long March 3C/YZ-1 flights

Date and time

30 March 2015, 13:52 UTC

Rocket

Long March 3C/YZ-1

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2015-019

Launches in 2015

20th of 87

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