BDS-3 M1 & BDS-3 M2

First dual-satellite Beidou launch using the new Long March 3B/Yuanzheng-1 upper-stage combination, placing two Beidou-3 navigation satellites, M1-S and M2-S, into medium Earth orbit from Xichang.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

MEO

Medium Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

2 T

Flight

1st

of 15 Long March 3B/YZ-1 flights

Date and time

25 July 2015, 12:29 UTC

Rocket

Long March 3B/YZ-1

Builder

CASC

Launch site

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

Payload

Communications

International designator

2015-037

Launches in 2015

40th of 87

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