Long March 3B
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The Long March 3B is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. Introduced in 1996, it is launched from Launch Area 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan. A three-stage rocket with four strap-on liquid rocket boosters, it is currently the most powerful member of the Long March rocket family and the heaviest of the Long March 3 rocket family, and is mainly used to place communications satellites into geosynchronous orbits.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 5,923 kN
- Height
- 54.8 m
- Diameter
- 3.35 m
- Launch mass
- 426 t
- Stages
- 3
- Launch cost
- $70M
- LEO capacity
- 11,500 kg
- GTO capacity
- 5,100 kg
- GEO capacity
- 2,000 kg
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
24
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
87.5%
21 of 24
Current success streak
3
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 3B/E | Beidou-3 G4 — Success
- Long March 3B | Fengyun-4B — Success
- Long March 3B | Beidou-3 G3 — Success
- Long March 3B | Nusantara Dua — Failure
- Long March 3B | Beidou-3 G2 — Success