FSW-0 9

FSW-0 9 (China 20 / JB-1 9), the final first-generation Fanhui Shi Weixing recoverable Earth-observation satellite, launched from Jiuquan with film-return cameras; also carried French microgravity packages—China’s first orbital flight for a foreign customer.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.8 T (est.)

Flight

6th

of 67 Long March 2C flights

Date and time

5 August 1987, 06:39 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

1987-067

Launches in 1987

71st of 114

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