Long March 12
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The Long March 12 carrier rocket is a Chinese medium-lift launch vehicle currently under development by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, using kerosene and liquid oxygen as propellant. It will be capable of placing at least 10 tonnes of payload in low Earth orbit and at least 6 tonnes in a 700 km Sun-synchronous orbit.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 5,000 kN
- Height
- 62 m
- Diameter
- 3.8 m
- Launch mass
- 428 t
- Stages
- —
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 12,000 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 6,000 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
6
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
100%
6 of 6
Current success streak
6
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
Next: Long March 12 | Unknown Payload — August 17, 2026
- Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 22 — Success
- Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 19 — Success
- Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 16 — Success
- Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 13 — Success
- Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 07 — Success