20 Amateur satellites

Maiden flight of China's Long March 6 rocket, lifting off from Taiyuan and deploying a record 20 small satellites, including CubeSats, into sun-synchronous orbit in a single launch.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

268 kg

Flight

1st

of 15 Long March 6 flights

Date and time

19 September 2015, 23:01 UTC

Rocket

Long March 6

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 16, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2015-049

Launches in 2015

52nd of 87

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