9 July 2018, 03:56 UTC
PRSS-1 & PakTes-1A
Launched Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite-1 (PRSS-1), an optical Earth-observation satellite built by China for Pakistan, alongside the small PakTES-1A satellite, from Jiuquan into sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Long March 2C/SMA flights
- Date and time
- 9 July 2018, 03:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 2C/SMA
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-056
- Launches in 2018
- 56th of 114
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