Long March 3B/E | Beidou-3 G4

Status

Success

Beidou-3 G4

Launch Time
Wed May 17, 2023 02:49 UTC

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Rocket

Long March 3B/E

Image Credit: CASC

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Status: Active

Price: $29.15 million

Liftoff Thrust: 5,986 kN

Payload to LEO: 11,500 kg

Payload to GTO: 5,550 kg

Stages: 3

Strap-ons: 4

Rocket Height: 56.3 m

Fairing Diameter: 4.2 m

Fairing Height: 9.56 m

Details

Mission Details

Beidou-3 G4

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: 1

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

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Location

LC-2, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China

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Stats

2023

71st orbital launch attempt

Long March 3

148th mission

3rd mission of 2023

140th successful mission

24th consecutive successful mission