16 January 2026, 16:55 UTC
Shijian 32
Long March 3B/E launched from Xichang carrying the Shijian-32 experimental satellite toward geostationary transfer orbit, but a third-stage anomaly doomed the mission — the first full Long March 3B failure since April 2020.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 76th
- of 78 Long March 3B/E flights
- Date and time
- 16 January 2026, 16:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 3B/E
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 2026
- 12th of 243