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Launch was a Partial FailureChina Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Long March 3B: Palapa-D
Failure:The satellite was deployed into the wrong orbit.
Monday, 31 August 200909:28 UTC
Mission Data
🇨🇳China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationEst. 1999
Launch VehicleLong March 3B
Vehicle FamilyLong March
Vehicle Record21 of 24 launches (87.5%)
Provider TypeGovernment
Agency Record606 successes / 16 failures (97%)
Success Streak13 consecutive
Launch PadLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2)
Location🇨🇳 Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China CHN
Orbital Launches This Year#49
Agency Launches This Year#3
Launches From This Pad126
Launches From This Site243
Status Note
Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.
About Long March 3B
The Long March 3B is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. Introduced in 1996, it is launched from Launch Area 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan. A three-stage rocket with four strap-on liquid rocket boosters, it is currently the most powerful member of the Long March rocket family and the heaviest of the Long March 3 rocket family, and is mainly used to place communications satellites into geosynchronous orbits.
Launch Site
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) · 28.2455°N 102.0268°E
Launch data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.