19 August 1998, 23:01 UTC
Iridium 76 & 78
Long March 2C/SD flight from Taiyuan that deployed two replacement satellites, Iridium 3 and Iridium 76, into the Iridium mobile-communications constellation using the rocket's Smart Dispenser upper stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 Long March 2C/SD flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 1998, 23:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 2C/SD
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 7, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-048
- Launches in 1998
- 50th of 82
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