9 March 2019, 16:28 UTC
Zhongxing 6C (Chinasat 6C)
A Long March 3B/E launched the Zhongxing-6C (Chinasat-6C) communications satellite, a DFH-4 bus spacecraft with 25 C-band transponders for TV and radio broadcasting, to geostationary transfer orbit for positioning at 130°E. The flight was the 300th Long March launch.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 27th
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 9 March 2019, 16:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3B/E
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2019-012
- Launches in 2019
- 14th of 102
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