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Apstar 2
Long March 2E · Communications
1995Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Mission
The APStar 2 satellite was designed to serve two-thirds of the world's population - from China, Japan, and Vietnam on the east; to Russia, Eastern Europe, and India on the west; and to Australia on the south. APT Satellite Company, Ltd., of Hong Kong, ordered the high-power Hughes HS 601 spacecraft model in November 1993, as well as satellite control facility equipment and operator training.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- CASC
- Rocket
- Long March 2E
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2