NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Yaogan 34-04

Launch Time
Fri Mar 31, 2023 06:27 UTC

Rocket

Long March 4C
Image Credit: CASC
CASC
Status: Active
Price: $64.68 million
Liftoff Thrust: 2,993 kN
Payload to LEO: 4,200 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,500 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 46.97 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.8 m
Fairing Height: 11.74 m

Mission Details

Yaogan 34-04

Yaogan 34 is an optical remote sensing satellite, with a ground image resolution of a few meters, mainly used for land census, urban planning, land rights, road network design, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and mitigation. It was built by SAST.

It was launched on the same orbit and orbital plane as the triplets of satellites of the Yaogan-31 constellation. Yaogan-34 is thus probably an optical satellite with a military purpose, in charge of improving or confirming the ELINT observations made by Yaogan-31.

Payloads: 1
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 9401 (SLS-2), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China

Stats

2023

53rd orbital launch attempt

Long March 4C

49th mission
2nd mission of 2023
47th successful mission
23rd consecutive successful mission