Long March 2C/YZ-1S | Yaogan-32 01

Launch Time
Tue Oct 09, 2018 02:43 UTC

First flight of CZ-2C with a YZ-1S upper stage.

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Long March 2C/YZ-1S

Image Credit: CASC

CASC

Status: Active

Price: $30.8 million

Liftoff Thrust: 2,962 kN

Payload to LEO: 2,850 kg

Payload to GTO: 1,000 kg

Stages: 3

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 38.83 m

Fairing Diameter: 3.35 m

Fairing Height: 8.37 m

Details

The Yaogan 32-01-01 and 32-02 (Remote Sensing Satellite-32-01-01 and 32-01-02) are Chinese military satellites of unknown purpose.

The visualization during the launch hints towards SIGINT satellites.

Payloads: 2

Low Earth Orbit

77th orbital launch attempt

49th mission

5th mission of 2018

48th successful mission

17th consecutive successful mission