Beidou-3 M17 & M18

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

18:07:00

Sunday November 18, 2018

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Beidou-3 M17 & M18

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BeiDou-3 will eventually consist of 35 satellites and is expected to provide global services upon completion in 2020. When fully completed, BeiDou will provide an alternative global navigation satellite system to the United States-owned Global Positioning System (GPS) and is expected to be more accurate than the GPS. It was claimed in 2016 that BeiDou-3 will reach millimeter-level accuracy (with post-processing), which is ten times more accurate than the finest level of GPS.

Medium Earth Orbit

2 Payloads

4,500 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Long March 3B/YZ-1

Active Since 2015

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation logo

Agency

CASC

Rocket

Height: 54.84m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 12,000 kg

GTO: 5,550 kg

Liftoff Thrust

5,986 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4m

Height: 10.8m

Stages

4

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

LC-3

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China

Fastest Turnaround

16 days 15 hours

Stats

Long March 3


107th

Mission

12th

Mission of 2018

2018


95th

Orbital launch attempt