BDS I2-S

China's 20th Beidou navigation satellite, a third-generation medium-orbit test spacecraft carrying the country's first hydrogen maser atomic clock, launched from Xichang.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

1.2 T (est.)

Flight

15th

of 78 Long March 3B/E flights

Date and time

29 September 2015, 23:13 UTC

Rocket

Long March 3B/E

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2015-053

Launches in 2015

56th of 87

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