LKW-2 (Land Survey Satellite-2)

Long March 2D launched the LKW-2 (Ludikancha Weixing-2) land-survey satellite from Jiuquan; this satellite class is widely believed to serve Chinese military reconnaissance purposes despite its civilian cover designation.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

2 T (est.)

Flight

35th

of 101 Long March 2D flights

Date and time

23 December 2017, 04:14 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

2017-084

Launches in 2017

88th of 90

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