Mission record
Long March 3B | Shijian-13/Chinasat-16
Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Provider type
Government
Orbit
GTO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
China
Date
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:04:04 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5634 ever
Mission
This is a Chinese experimental geostationary communications satellite. Besides testing the electric propulsion, the satellite is also reported to carry Chinas first high-throughput satellite payload (HTS), with a capacity of 20 GB per second. The satellite is aiming to provide Ka-band satellite broadband and multimedia services. Additionally it is also to conduct space-to-ground laser communications experiments.
Deployed payloads · 1