10 July 2026, 04:15 UTC
Demo Flight
Debut flight of the reusable Long March 10B placed the experimental China SatNet CX-26 satellite into an 800 km orbit and achieved China's first recovery of an orbital rocket booster, caught by a wire-based system on the recovery ship Linghangzhe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Long March 10B flight
- Date and time
- 10 July 2026, 04:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 10B
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Commercial LC-2, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2026-158
- Launches in 2026
- 165th of 243
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