18 April 2004, 15:59 UTC
Shiyan Weixing 1
Long March 2C carried Shiyan-1, China's first experimental digital stereo-imaging satellite for terrain mapping, and NS-1, the country's first nanosatellite developed by Tsinghua University, into low Earth orbit from Xichang.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 233 kg
- Flight
- 12th
- of 67 Long March 2C flights
- Date and time
- 18 April 2004, 15:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 2C
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2004-012
- Launches in 2004
- 12th of 54
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