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Long March 4B | Zi Yuan-2 02 xing
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 4B · Launch Complex 7, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's 12th launch · 4th this year · humanity's 4,562nd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Oct 27, 03:17 – Oct 27, 03:17 UTC
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Zi Yuan-2 02 xing
JB-3 2 was nominally a Chinese (PRC) remote sensing satellite, although US intelligence sources indicated it had primarily an intelligence imaging mission. JB-3 2 was the name adopted by the USSPACECOM. Most news reports from China and elsewhere use different names: ZY-2B (acronym for ZiYuan-2B, translated as Resource-2B), and Zhong Guo Zi Yuan Er Hao, translated as China Resource 2. No information was available on the instruments onboard the JB-3 2, but officially it was intended 'for territorial survey, environment monitoring and protection, urban planning, crop yield assessment, disaster monitoring, and space scientific experiments'.
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32 launches from this pad · 157 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
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