12 April 2017, 11:04 UTC
Shijian-13/Chinasat-16
Long March 3B launched ChinaSat-16 (Shijian-13), China's first high-throughput Ka-band communications satellite, also testing space-to-ground laser communications. A third-stage thruster anomaly left it in a lower-than-planned orbit, requiring two extra weeks of maneuvering to reach GEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 24 Long March 3B flights
- Date and time
- 12 April 2017, 11:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3B
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-018
- Launches in 2017
- 19th of 90
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