5 August 2016, 16:22 UTC
Tiantong1-01
Long March 3B launched Tiantong-1, China's first S-band mobile communications satellite, to geostationary transfer orbit, providing mobile voice, data, and multimedia services across China, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian Ocean region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 5 August 2016, 16:22 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
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-048
- Launches in 2016
- 48th of 85
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