Yaogan Weixing 8

Deployed Yaogan-8, a Chinese electro-optical reconnaissance satellite (Jianbing-6) into sun-synchronous orbit, officially described as being for scientific experiments, land survey and crop yield monitoring.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

1.1 T

Flight

4th

of 60 Long March 4C flights

Date and time

15 December 2009, 02:31 UTC

Rocket

Long March 4C

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

2009-072

Launches in 2009

75th of 78

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