TanSat, Xighuo 1, 2 & Yijian

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

19:22:00

Wednesday December 21, 2016

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Xighuo 1 & 2

Wiki

Spark 01 and Spark 02 are Chinese hyperspectral earth-observing minisatellites. The spacecraft were built and are operated by the China Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Small Satellite Center on the WN5000 bus. The satellites feature a wide-range hyperspectral imager. The ground resolution is 50 m, covering the spectral range from visible to near-infrared (420 nm - 1000 nm) and a swath width of 100 km. The imager has an average spectral resolution of 148 channels of 5 nm and a single satellite could obtain 2.5 million km2 hyperspectral imagery per day, with global coverage every 16 days.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

2 Payloads

86 kilograms

Yijian

Wiki

Yijian (name not confirmed) is Chinese high-resolution earth-observing minisatellite. The spacecraft was built and is operated by the China Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Small Satellite Center on the WN5000 bus.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

66 kilograms

TanSat

Wiki

TanSat, also known as CarbonSat, is a Chinese Earth observation satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. It is generally classified as a minisatellite and is the first dedicated carbon mission of the Chinese space program. The mission was formally proposed in 2010, and work began in January 2011. It is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and was built by the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem And Information Technology (SIMIT).

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

620 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Long March 2D

Active Since 1992

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation logo

Agency

CASC

Price

$29.75 million

Rocket

Height: 40.77m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 3,500 kg

GTO: 1,200 kg

Liftoff Thrust

2,962 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3.35m

Height: 7.82m

Stages

2

Launch Site

Site 9401 (SLS-2)

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China

Fastest Turnaround

10 days 18 hours

Stats

Long March 2D


31st

Mission

5th

Mission of 2016

2016


83rd

Orbital launch attempt