XJY-7 & others

Debut flight of China's Long March 8 rocket from Wenchang, reaching a 512 km sun-synchronous orbit and deploying five satellites led by the classified XJY-7 technology-demonstration satellite, alongside Spacety's Haisi 1 radar-imaging satellite, the Yuanguang cubesat, and the Tianqi 8 IoT relay satellite.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

5.3 T (est.)

Flight

1st

of 6 Long March 8 flights

Date and time

22 December 2020, 04:37 UTC

Rocket

Long March 8

Builder

CASC

Launch site

201, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

2020-102

Launches in 2020

112th of 114

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