CFOSAT

Long March 2C launched CFOSAT, a joint Chinese-French oceanography satellite carrying a scatterometer and wave spectrometer to measure sea-surface winds and waves.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

752 kg

Flight

37th

of 67 Long March 2C flights

Date and time

29 October 2018, 00:43 UTC

Rocket

Long March 2C

Builder

CASC

Launch site

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

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2018-083

Launches in 2018

85th of 114

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