27 December 2019, 12:45 UTC
Shijian 20
Long March 5 returned to flight after a two-and-a-half-year grounding following its 2017 failure, launching the Shijian-20 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit from Wenchang. The roughly 8-ton satellite tests Q/V-band and laser communications plus an experimental quantum communication payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 9 Long March 5 flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 2019, 12:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 5
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- 101, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2019-097
- Launches in 2019
- 102nd of 102
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