China Aerospace Corporation

Zhongxing 7

Long March 3

FAILURE
Failure

Sunday, August 18, 1996 · 10:27 UTC

Mission

/01

ChinaSat 7 or ZX 7 (Zhongxing 7) is a Hughes HS-376 model geostationary telecommunications satellite built for the China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corporation (ChinaSat). It was the first satellite ChinaSat had ordered from a western spacecraft contractor, Hughes Space and Communications International, Inc., known today as Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc.

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Long March 3

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)

Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

28.247° N, 102.029° E

11

Pad Launches

21

Location Launches

12

Agency Launches

52

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