1996 · China Aerospace Corporation

Zhongxing 7

failureLong March 3 | Zhongxing 7

ChinaSat 7 or ZX 7 (Zhongxing 7) is a Hughes HS-376 model geostationary telecommunications satellite built for the China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corporation (ChinaSat). It was the first satellite ChinaSat had ordered from a western spacecraft contractor, Hughes Space and Communications International, Inc., known today as Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc.

Overview

Date / time: August 18, 1996 at 10:27 AM UTC
Outcome: failure
Mission: Zhongxing 7
Mission type: Communications
Orbit achieved: Geostationary Orbit

FailureThird stage engine shut down 48 seconds too early.

Launch vehicle

Long March 3 →

Launch provider

China Aerospace Corporation →

Payloads deployed · 1

ZHONGXING-7

GEO