9 December 2020, 20:14 UTC
GECAM
Long March 11 launched the twin GECAM-A and GECAM-B gamma-ray observatories from Xichang into opposite-side low Earth orbits, forming an all-sky monitor to detect electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts, and magnetar flares.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 300 kg
- Flight
- 11th
- of 18 Long March 11 flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 2020, 20:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 11
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Mobile Launcher Pad, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2020-094
- Launches in 2020
- 103rd of 114
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