Long March 3B/YZ-1: next launch, record and specs
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.
Record
15 launches, 15 successful (100%), 15 successes in a row.
Upcoming Long March 3B/YZ-1 launches
None on the schedule right now.
Specifications
- Maker: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- First flight: 1996-02-14
- Height: 54.8 m
- Diameter: 3.35 m
- Payload to low Earth orbit: 11,500 kg
- Payload to geostationary transfer: 5,100 kg
- Reusable: No