At 1121 Hours Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time 7th May 2024 , China- People’s Republic of China- CNSA –China National Space Administration Successfully launched Chang Zheng – Long March 6C Yao 1 Carrier Rocket rocket ignited and took off at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Shanxi Province.. Deploying the Neptune 01 satellite, the wide-width optical satellite, the high-resolution video satellite, and the Zhixing-1C Among with the group of Four Statellites.
[The first flight of Long March 6C was a complete success! The new generation of Long March rocket family has added a “new force”】
嫦娥六号 The Chang Zheng- Long March 6C Carrier Rocket of Shanghai No. 8 Academy successfully made its first flight. The rocket adopts a single-core two-stage configuration (to put it bluntly, it is a polished rod). The diameter of the first sub-stage is 3.35 meters. It uses two liquid oxygen/kerosene with a thrust of 120 tons. The engine, with a second-stage diameter of 2.9 meters, uses a liquid oxygen/kerosene engine with a thrust of 18 tons. The total length of the entire rocket is about 43 meters, the take-off weight of the entire rocket is about 215 tons, and the 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit carrying capacity is about 2.4 tons. Multiple specifications of satellite fairings can be adapted according to different tasks.
At 11:21 on May 7, 2024, the Chang Zheng- Long March 6C Carrier Rocket was successfully launched from my country’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, successfully sending four satellites including Neptune 01 into the predetermined orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. This mission is the first flight of the Long March 6C launch vehicle, marking the addition of a new member to the Long March rocket family, further improving the model spectrum of my country’s new generation Long March series of launch vehicles, and promoting the accelerated upgrading of my country’s active launch vehicles. Among them, the Long March 6C carrier rocket and Neptune 01 were developed by Shanghai Aerospace Corporation…
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