CBERS-4A

Long March 4B lifted off from Taiyuan carrying the Chinese-Brazilian CBERS-4A remote-sensing satellite, Ethiopia's first satellite ETRSS-1, and seven smaller rideshare satellites into sun-synchronous orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

2.5 T

Flight

35th

of 58 Long March 4B flights

Date and time

20 December 2019, 03:22 UTC

Rocket

Long March 4B

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2019-093

Launches in 2019

98th of 102

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