Mission record
Long March 3B/E | Zhongxing-9A (Chinasat-9A)
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Provider type
Government
Orbit
GTO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
China
Date
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:11:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5652 ever
Failure
The satellite was placed into the wrong orbit due to a third stage anomaly. However, the payload recovered using onboard propulsion.
Mission
ChinaSat-9A is based on the DFH-4 satellite platform and is to provide direct broadcast services with eighteen 36MHz and four 54MHz BSS Ku band transponders. Together with ChinaSat-9 direct broadcast satellite, ChinaSat 9A is designed to serve the radio and TV transmission, digital film and digital broadband multi-media system as well as information and entertainment broadcasting market.