1997 · China Aerospace Corporation
Apstar 2R
successLong March 3B | Apstar 2R
Space Systems/Loral's (SS/L) Apstar-2R is one of the most powerful spacecraft in Asia-Pacific service. Launched in China in 1997 by APT Satellite Company, Ltd., the satellite offers regional voice, video, and data services to an area large enough to link Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region into a broad telecommunications network.
Overview
- Date / time
- October 16, 1997 at 07:13 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- Mission
- Apstar 2R
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Orbit