Yaogan Weixing 3

Debut flight of China's Long March 4C, carrying the Yaogan-3 remote-sensing satellite, China's first spaceborne synthetic aperture radar system, into sun-synchronous orbit from Taiyuan.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

2.7 T

Flight

2nd

of 60 Long March 4C flights

Date and time

11 November 2007, 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

2007-055

Launches in 2007

58th of 68

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