11 May 1997, 16:17 UTC
Zhongxing 6
Long March 3A launched ChinaSat-6, a domestic communications satellite, from Xichang Satellite Launch Center into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 27 Long March 3A flights
- Date and time
- 11 May 1997, 16:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3A
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-021
- Launches in 1997
- 22nd of 89
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