OperationalCASC / CALTFirst Launch: 1996-02-14
Long March 3B/E
China's most-flown heavy-lift launcher, primarily used for GTO communications satellites and BeiDou navigation missions.
SpaceStats Reliability & Flight Record
TOTAL LAUNCHES
115
Orbital missions
SUCCESSFUL
110
5 failures
SUCCESS RATE
95.7%
LANDINGS
0
Expendable Vehicle
CASC / CALTFeatured Photography
Long March 3B Launching Chang'e 3 Moon Lander
CNSA / Xinhua
Technical & Propulsion Specifications
Operator: CASC / CALTVehicle Dimensions & Mass
- Overall Height
- 56.3 m
- Body Diameter
- 3.35 m
- Gross Lift-off Mass
- 459 t
- Stages Count
- 3
- Fairing Diameter
- 4.2 m
Stage 1 (Booster)
- Recovery Mode
- Expendable
Stage 2 & Capacities
- LEO Capacity
- 11.5 t
- GTO Capacity
- 5.5 t
- Cost per Launch
- $70,000,000
- LEO Price / kg
- ~$6,087 / kg
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High-Resolution Photo Gallery & Media
3 photos & renders of Long March 3B/E
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Liftoff2013-12-01Long March 3B Launching Chang'e 3 Moon Lander
Long March 3B/E rocket launching the Chang'e 3 lunar probe carrying the Yutu rover from Xichang.
CNSA / Xinhua
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Pad2018-05-18Long March 3B at Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Long March 3B on Launch Complex 2 deep in the mountainous canyon of Sichuan Province.
CASC
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Liftoff2020-03-09Long March 3B Geostationary Night Launch
Spectacular night liftoff of Long March 3B deploying a BeiDou-3 navigation satellite into transfer orbit.
Xinhua / Liang Keyan
Source SpaceStats Launch Manifest & Database
0 mission records cataloged in database
No individual manifest entries logged in database for Long March 3B/E.
Summary stats and flight achievements are detailed in the overview above.