Yaogan Weixing 1

Debut flight of the Long March 4C carried Yaogan-1 (military designation Jian Bing-5), China's first synthetic-aperture radar reconnaissance satellite, into sun-synchronous orbit from Taiyuan.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

2.7 T

Flight

1st

of 60 Long March 4C flights

Date and time

26 April 2006, 22:48 UTC

Rocket

Long March 4C

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 7, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

2006-015

Launches in 2006

16th of 66

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