Rocket
Long March 3B
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.
- Manufacturer
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- First flight
- February 14, 1996
- Launches
- 24
- Successful
- 21
- Failed
- 3
- Success rate
- 87.5%
- Height
- 54.8 m
- Diameter
- 3.35 m
- Liftoff mass
- 426 t
- Payload to low Earth orbit
- 11,500 kg
- Payload to geostationary transfer orbit
- 5,100 kg
- Reusable
- no