BADR & Aussat-B-MFS

Maiden flight of the Long March 2E, China's first rocket with strap-on liquid boosters; carried Pakistan's first satellite, Badr-1, plus a dummy mass simulator for the Aussat-B communications satellite. An upper-stage attitude fault left the dummy payload in a bad orbit, though Badr-1 reached its planned low Earth orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

2.8 T (est.)

Flight

1st

of 7 Long March 2E flights

Date and time

16 July 1990, 00:40 UTC

Rocket

Long March 2E

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Test Flight

International designator

1990-059

Launches in 1990

62nd of 121

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Object pages on Space Atlas: Badr-1

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