11 June 1999, 17:15 UTC
Iridium 92 & 93
Launched the Iridium 14A and Iridium 21A satellites from Taiyuan on the final flight of the Long March 2C/SD 'Smart Dispenser' variant, adding a pair of spacecraft to the Iridium global mobile satellite phone constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Long March 2C/SD flights
- Date and time
- 11 June 1999, 17:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 2C/SD
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 7, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-032
- Launches in 1999
- 33rd of 78
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