LaunchesZhongxing 7
CASCFAILURE
Zhongxing 7
Long March 3 · Communications
1996Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Mission
ChinaSat 7 or ZX 7 (Zhongxing 7) is a Hughes HS-376 model geostationary telecommunications satellite built for the China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corporation (ChinaSat). It was the first satellite ChinaSat had ordered from a western spacecraft contractor, Hughes Space and Communications International, Inc., known today as Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- CASC
- Rocket
- Long March 3
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2