LKW-1 (Land Survey Satellite-1)

Long March 2D launched the LKW-1 (Ludikancha Weixing-1) land-survey satellite from Jiuquan, a remote-sensing spacecraft that analysts believe also serves Chinese military reconnaissance roles.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

2 T (est.)

Flight

34th

of 101 Long March 2D flights

Date and time

3 December 2017, 04:11 UTC

Rocket

Long March 2D

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2017-077

Launches in 2017

81st of 90

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