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China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationMixed resultTechnologyLong March 2C/YZ-1S
Launched 2024-03-13 12:51 UTCLaunch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Upper stage problem; payload deployed to wrong orbit.
From Launch Library 2 · updated
Partial failure
Target: Lunar Orbit
Long March 2C/YZ-1S lifted off with DRO-A/B, but the launch was only a partial success.
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No cause has been given yet. What China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
Two spacecraft by the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed to perform communication and navigation testing from a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around the Moon with a 3rd satellite in Low Earth Orbit.
Launch Provider
Government · China · Founded 1999 · Chairman & President Lei Fanpei
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.
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621
Successful
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97%
Landings
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of 2
Upcoming
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scheduled
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Upper stage problem sent payload to wrong orbit; independent orbit determination results pending.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff confirmed
hitura-nobad
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Added launch per NOTAMs; launch vehicle and payload identities highly uncertain.
Cosmic_Penguin
Height
42m
Diameter
3.4m
To low Earth orbit
3,850kg
Liftoff thrust
2,962kN
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