18 August 1996, 10:27 UTC
Zhongxing 7
Long March 3 failed to deliver the ChinaSat-7 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit after its third-stage engine shut down about 40 seconds early when frozen oxygen caused a fire in the gas generator.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 13 Long March 3 flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 1996, 10:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-048
- Launches in 1996
- 52nd of 77
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