Optus B3

Launched Australia's Optus B3 communications satellite from Xichang aboard a Long March 2E, delivering the Hughes HS-601-based spacecraft toward geostationary transfer orbit for telephone, TV and mobile services.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

Direct-GEO

Geostationary orbit

Payload to orbit

7.5 T

Flight

4th

of 7 Long March 2E flights

Date and time

27 August 1994, 23:10 UTC

Rocket

Long March 2E

Builder

CASC

Launch site

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

Payload

Communications

International designator

1994-055

Launches in 1994

58th of 93

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