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China Aerospace Corporation • Long March 3B • Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) (NA)
China Aerospace Corporation • Long March 3B • LC-2
Chinese communications satellite
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Chinese communications satellite
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.
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