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Launch Failure
Liftoff Time (GMT)
21:28:00
Friday July 27, 1979
Second stage malfunction.
SJ 2 (Shi Jian 2) was a Chinese satellite mission to measure and study the micrometeoroids and debris environment and to conduct electromagnetic background experiments. The satellite featured a spin-stabilized octahedral prism-shaped structure and was sun-pointing. The satellite structure had a length of 1.2 m and an outer diameter of 0.615 m. Four deployable solar wings are attached to the top of the satellite.
Low Earth Orbit
3 Payloads
663 kilograms
Agency
MASIRocket
Diameter: 3.35m
Height: 33m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 2,500 kg
GTO: 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust
2,785 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 3.35m
Height: 5m
Stages
2
10th
Mission
1st
Mission of 1979
71st
Orbital launch attempt