flown missionFailure
Long March 2E | Apstar 2
China Aerospace CorporationLaunch Complex 2 (LC-2) — Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
mission
- Name
- Apstar 2
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Long March 2E
- Family
- Long March
- Variant
- E
- 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