Nusantara Dua

Long March 3B failure that destroyed Indonesia's Nusantara Dua (Palapa-N1) communications satellite when one of the two third-stage YF-75 engines failed to ignite; wreckage reentered over the Pacific, producing fireball sightings near Guam.

Outcome

Failure

Orbit

GTO

Geostationary transfer orbit

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

21st

of 24 Long March 3B flights

Date and time

9 April 2020, 11:46 UTC

Rocket

Long March 3B

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Communications

Launches in 2020

26th of 114