Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: 201, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
Mission Description
Demonstration flight of the Long March 8A rocket with upgraded first stage and boosters engines, and a new larger liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen second stage with new YF-75H engines derived from ones used on the Long March 5.
Payload is a batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.
The constellation will eventually consists of 13000 satellites.
