29 October 2008, 16:53 UTC
Simon Bolivar
VeneSat-1 (Simón Bolívar), Venezuela's first satellite, launched from Xichang on a DFH-4 bus with 14 C-band, 12 Ku-band and 2 Ka-band transponders. Built and launched by China's CGWIC/CASC, it is operated by Venezuela's space agency ABAE from geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.1 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 29 October 2008, 16:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3B/E
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-055
- Launches in 2008
- 57th of 69
See it in orbit
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Object pages on Space Atlas: VENESAT-1
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