Long March 3
Long March family · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Retired
The Long March 3 is a chinese orbital carrier rocket. They all launched from Launch Area 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It is a 3 stage rocket used to put communication satellites into geosynchronous trasfer orbits.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 2,961 kN
- Height
- 23.49 m
- Diameter
- 3.35 m
- Launch mass
- 204 t
- Stages
- 3
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 5,000 kg
- GTO capacity
- 1,500 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
13
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
76.9%
10 of 13
Current success streak
2
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
- Long March 3 | Feng Yun 2B — Success
- Long March 3 | Feng Yun 2A — Success
- Long March 3 | Zhongxing 7 — Failure
- Long March 3 | Apstar 1A — Success
- Long March 3 | APSTAR 1 — Success