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.