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Long March 3B/YZ-1
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · China
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.
- Hersteller
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Erstflug
- 14. Februar 1996
- Starts
- 15
- Erfolgreich
- 15
- Fehlgeschlagen
- 0
- Erfolgsquote
- 100%
- Höhe
- 54,8 m
- Durchmesser
- 3,35 m
- Startmasse
- 425 t
- Nutzlast in den niedrigen Erdorbit
- 11.500 kg
- Nutzlast in den geostationären Transferorbit
- 5.100 kg
- Wiederverwendbar
- nein