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| Long March 3C |
Long March 3C |
| Fact sheet |
| Function |
Carrier rocket |
| Manufacturer |
CALT |
| Country of origin |
 People's Republic of China |
| Size |
| Height |
54.8 metres (180 ft)[1] |
| Diameter |
3.35 metres (11.0 ft)[1] |
| Mass |
345,000 kilograms (760,000 lb)[1] |
| Stages |
3 |
| Capacity |
Payload to
GTO |
3,700 kilograms (8,200 lb)[2] |
Payload to
HCO |
2,400 kilograms (5,300 lb)[2] |
| Associated Rockets |
| Family |
Long March |
| Launch History |
| Status |
Active |
| Launch sites |
LC-2, XSLC |
| Total launches |
1 |
| Successes |
1 |
| Maiden flight |
25 April 2008 |
The Long March 3C, also known as the Chang Zheng 3C, CZ-3C and LM-3C, is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. It is launched from Launch Complex 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. A 3-stage rocket with two strapon liquid rocket boosters, it is a member of the Long March 3 rocket family, and was derived from the Long March 3B. It was designed to fill a gap in payload capacities between the Long March 3A and 3B.
It made its maiden flight on 25 April 2008, at 15:35 GMT. The payload for the first launch was the Tianlian-1 data relay communications satellite.
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Ariane 5 · Atlas V · Cosmos-3M · Delta II · Delta IV · Dnepr · GSLV · H-IIA · Long March (1D, 2C, 2D, 2F, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4B, 4C) · Minotaur · Pegasus · Proton · PSLV · Rockot · Shavit · Shtil' · Start-1 · Strela · Soyuz (U, FG, 2) · Taurus · Tsyklon-3 · Volna · Zenit
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Ariane (1, 2, 3, 4) · Athena · Atlas (ICBM derived, I, II, III) · Black Arrow · Delta III · Diamant · Energia · Europa · H-II · J-I · Juno I · Juno II · Lambda · Long March (1, 2A, 2E, 3, 4A) · Mu (V) · N1 · R-7 (Molniya (M), Polyot, Sputnik, Voskhod, Vostok) · Saturn (I, IB ,V, INT-21) · Scout · Sparta · Thor · Thor-Agena · Thor-Burner · Thorad-Agena · Titan (II, III, IIIB, 34D, IV) · Tsyklon (2) · Vanguard
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