Fengyun-2H

Launched Fengyun-2H from Xichang, the eighth and final satellite in China's Fengyun-2 series of spin-stabilized geostationary weather satellites, developed by SAST and CAST.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

GTO

Geostationary transfer orbit

Payload to orbit

1.4 T

Flight

26th

of 27 Long March 3A flights

Date and time

5 June 2018, 13:07 UTC

Rocket

Long March 3A

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2018-050

Launches in 2018

50th of 114

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