4 August 2021, 11:01 UTC
KL-Beta
This Long March 6 launch from Taiyuan carried the KL-Beta A and B technology-demonstration satellites, built by CAS Microspace to test Ka-band and inter-satellite laser communications for the Sino-German KLEO Connect multimedia constellation project.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 15 Long March 6 flights
- Date and time
- 4 August 2021, 11:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 6
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 16, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-070
- Launches in 2021
- 75th of 146
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