Long March 11

The Long March 11 can launch from a mobile sea platform.

The solid Long March 11 and Jielong-3 rockets will launch from both land and sea in 2023.

A hypergolic Long March 2D launched a fourth group of three Yaogan-36 reconnaissance satellites from Xichang 36 hours before the 2022-12-16 Long March 11 launch.

Of the 15 Long March 11 flights, 11 have launched from the national spaceports Jiuquan and Xichang and four have launched from converted barges in the Yellow Sea.

China launched a Long March 11 solid rocket from Xichang on 2022-12-16 at 0617 UTC.

China previously launched Long March 11 rockets from the Yellow Sea using cold launches that expel the rocket from its container with a separate gas system.

China launched five commercial remote sensing satellites (Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D04-07 and Gaofen-04A) on a sea launch of a Long March 11 rocket.

CALT established a nearby final assembly and test base that supported a Long March 11 sea launch in May.

Haiyang recently hosted a third Long March 11 solid rocket sea launch using a nearby new final assembly and test base for the first time.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) operates the Long March 11 from inland sites and from a sea platform.

The 2022-04-30 Long March 11 sea launch was China’s third sea launch and the most southerly sea launch to date from facilities based at Haiyang, Shandong province.

The 2022-04-30 Long March 11 mission used a nearby final assembly and test base for the first time for a Long March 11 launch, reducing launch preparation time and transportation costs for that mission.

On 2022-04-30 (Universal Time) a Long March 11 sea launch sent five Jilin-1 satellites to orbit, including Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D04 to 03D07 and the Gaofen 04A with 0.50-meter resolution.

The 2022-04-30 Long March 11 sea launch placed satellites into roughly 530 by 546-kilometer sun-synchronous orbits from a platform in the Yellow Sea.

A new attempt to launch the Long March 11 from an East China Sea platform was set for early 2022-04-30 universal time.

The Long March 11 East China Sea launch was expected to deliver new Jilin-1 satellites into orbit.

A planned 2022-04-29 launch of a Long March 11 solid rocket from a platform in the East China Sea was scrubbed because of weather.

The Long March 11 flight path will take the rocket over Taiwan with spent stages expected to fall into the seas.