flown missionSuccess
Long March 3B | Apstar 2R
China Aerospace CorporationLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) — Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Apstar 2R
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
Space Systems/Loral's (SS/L) Apstar-2R is one of the most powerful spacecraft in Asia-Pacific service. Launched in China in 1997 by APT Satellite Company, Ltd., the satellite offers regional voice, video, and data services to an area large enough to link Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region into a broad telecommunications network.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Long March 3B
- Family
- Long March
- Variant
- B
- Provider
- China Aerospace Corporation
- Type
- Government
- Country
- CHN
launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- Location
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Country
- CHN
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 28.2455, 102.0268