Long March 4B

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Long March 4B
Long March 4B
Long March 4B
Fact sheet
Function Carrier rocket
Manufacturer CALT
Country of origin Flag of the People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Size
Height 45.8 metres (150 ft)[1]
Diameter 3.35 metres (11.0 ft)[1]
Mass 249,200 kilograms (549,000 lb)[1]
Stages 3
Capacity
Payload to
LEO
4,200 kilograms (9,300 lb)[2]
Payload to
SSO
2,800 kilograms (6,200 lb)[2]
Payload to
GTO
1,500 kilograms (3,300 lb)[2]
Associated Rockets
Family Long March
Derivatives Long March 4C
Launch History
Status Active
Launch sites LC-1, TSLC
Total launches 10
Successes 10
Maiden flight 10 May 1999

The Long March 4B, also known as the Chang Zheng 4B, CZ-4B and LM-4B is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. Launched from Launch Complex 1 at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, it is a 3-stage rocket, used mostly to place satellites into low Earth and sun synchronous orbits. It was first launched on 10 May 1999, with the FY-1C weather satellite, which would later be used in the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Mark Wade. CZ-4B (English). Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved on 2008-04-27.
  2. ^ a b c Gunter Krebs. CZ-4B (Chang Zheng-4B) (English). Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved on 2008-04-27.