flown missionSuccess
Long March 2C/SD | Iridium 76 & 78
China Aerospace CorporationLaunch Complex 7 — Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Iridium 76 & 78
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Iridium provides global mobile telecommunications services using a constellation of 66 low earth orbit satellites in a 86.4° inclined orbit. Although 77 satellites were originally envisioned for the system and spawned the name based on the 77th element in the periodic table, the system has been scaled back. Motorola's Satellite Communications Group designed and manufactured the Iridium satellites with Lockheed Martin providing the LM-700A spacecraft buses.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Long March 2C/SD
- Family
- Long March
- Variant
- C/SD
- Provider
- China Aerospace Corporation
- Type
- Government
- Country
- CHN
launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 7
- Location
- Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Country
- CHN
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 38.8489, 111.6079