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Long March 2E | Apstar 2

Apstar 2

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Launch Details

Date: 25 Jan 1995, 10:40 pm UTC

Rocket: Long March 2E (Long March)

Provider: China Aerospace Corporation

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Mission Description

The APStar 2 satellite was designed to serve two-thirds of the world's population - from China, Japan, and Vietnam on the east; to Russia, Eastern Europe, and India on the west; and to Australia on the south. APT Satellite Company, Ltd., of Hong Kong, ordered the high-power Hughes HS 601 spacecraft model in November 1993, as well as satellite control facility equipment and operator training.