Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Yaogan 12
The Yaogan 5 (Remote Sensing Satellite 5) satellite series consists of optical government remote sensing satellites, likely used as military reconnaissance satellites. They appear to be the successors of the ZY-2 (JB-3) series.
Yaogan 5 was launched by a CZ-4B rocket from China's Taiyuan space center on 15. December 2008. It is likely an optical reconnaissance satellite.
The second satellite of this series, Yaogan 12, was launched on 9 November 2011 together with a piggyback microsatellite.
Payloads: 1
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Tianxun-1
TX 1 (Tian Xun 1) is a Chinese microsatellite built by the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The main payload is a 2.5 kg CCD camera built by Suzhou University. It has a maximum resolution of roughly 30 meters.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 58.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
LC-9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China
Stats
2011
69th orbital launch attempt
Long March 4B
15th mission
2nd mission of 2011
15th successful mission