Long March 2D

Status

Success

Saudisat 5A, 5B & Others

Launch Time
Fri Dec 07, 2018 04:12 UTC

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Rocket

Long March 2D

Image Credit: CASC

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Status: Active

Price: $29.75 million

Liftoff Thrust: 2,962 kN

Payload to LEO: 3,500 kg

Payload to GTO: 1,200 kg

Stages: 2

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 40.77 m

Fairing Diameter: 3.35 m

Fairing Height: 7.82 m

Details

Mission Details

Saudisat 5A & 5B

SaudiSat 5A and 5B are two Saudi-Arabian earth observation and technology demonstration satellites developed by the KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology).

Saudisat 5 satellites feature a regionally optimized hyper-spectral imaging system. They are a replacement for Saudisat 2 and Saudisat 3.

Payloads: 2

Total Mass: 850.0 kg

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Rideshares

Other payloads were also launched on this flight:
- TFStar
- Tianyi 3-01
- Tianyi y-0y
- Tianyi z-0z
- Sagittarius 01
- Ladybird 1 to 7

Payloads: 12

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

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

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Stats

2018

104th orbital launch attempt

42nd mission

7th mission of 2018

41st successful mission

10th consecutive successful mission