Long March 3B/YZ-1
Long March family · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Active
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
- 425 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Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.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
15
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
100%
15 of 15
Current success streak
15
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/YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M25 & M27 — Success
- Long March 3B/YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M26 & M28 — Success
- Long March 3B/YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M19 & M20 — Success
- Long March 3B/YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M21 & M22 — Success
- Long March 3B / YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M23 & M24 — Success