Beidou Daohang Shiyan Wei. 4

Placed Beidou-1D (also called Compass-2A), a backup geostationary satellite for China's first-generation BeiDou navigation system, into orbit; it later suffered and recovered from a control-system malfunction.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

Direct-GEO

Geostationary orbit

Payload to orbit

2.3 T

Flight

12th

of 27 Long March 3A flights

Date and time

2 February 2007, 16:28 UTC

Rocket

Long March 3A

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Navigation

International designator

2007-003

Launches in 2007

4th of 68

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