Launch Overview
Vehicle
Chang Zheng 3
Agency
China Aerospace Corporation
Site / Pad
XSC / LC3
Outcome
Failure
Flight
Y14
COSPAR Designator
1996-048
Mission
Zhongxing 7 (Communications)
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.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Long March 3
Provider
China Aerospace Corporation
Agency launches
12 (3 YTD)
Site launches
21 (3 YTD)
Pad launches
11 (2 YTD)