FSW-0 5

Long March 2C from Jiuquan lofted FSW-0 No.5 (China 13), a recoverable film-return photoreconnaissance satellite that imaged Earth targets and returned a capsule after a multi-day low-Earth-orbit mission.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.8 T (est.)

Flight

2nd

of 67 Long March 2C flights

Date and time

19 August 1983, 06:00 UTC

Rocket

Long March 2C

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Area 2B, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Government/Top Secret

International designator

1983-086

Launches in 1983

87th of 129

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