18 November 2004, 10:45 UTC
Shiyan Weixing 2
Orbited China's Shiyan-2 satellite from Xichang, the country's first experimental digital stereo Earth-imaging spacecraft, proving technology later applied to a new generation of Chinese reconnaissance satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 304 kg
- Flight
- 14th
- of 67 Long March 2C flights
- Date and time
- 18 November 2004, 10:45 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
- 2004-046
- Launches in 2004
- 47th of 54
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