Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Beidou-3 M7 & M8
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.
Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 4,500.0 kg
Medium Earth Orbit
Location
LC-2, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China
Stats
2018
3rd orbital launch attempt
Long March 3
96th mission
1st mission of 2018
89th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission