31 August 2016, 18:55 UTC
Gaofen 10
A third-stage anomaly caused this Long March 4C, flying from Taiyuan, to fail to place the Gaofen-10 Earth-observation satellite into its planned sun-synchronous orbit; Chinese officials did not confirm the loss until weeks later.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 20th
- of 60 Long March 4C flights
- Date and time
- 31 August 2016, 18:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 4C
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 2016
- 54th of 85