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Launch Vehicles
Vehicle family profile

Long March 5

Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC)Unknown
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Variants
2
Canonical variants linked to this family.
Historical missions
17
Missions in the public mission table with actual launch dates.
Peak listed capacity
25,000 kg
Maximum payload capacity across listed variants and orbits.

Launch Cadence

Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.

YearHistorical missionsForecast launches
201710
201910
202030
202110
202220
202310
202430
202540

Performance Specs

Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.

VariantOrbitCapacityAltitudeInclinationSource
Chang Zheng 5LEO25,000 kgUnknownUnknownCNSA Long March 5 page
Chang Zheng 5BLEO25,000 kgUnknownUnknownCASC / SpaceChina Long March 5B page

Recent Missions

Latest launched missions using variants in this family.

MissionVariantLaunch
TJS 23Chang Zheng 5Dec 20, 2025
TJS 20Chang Zheng 5Oct 23, 2025
WHDW 08Chang Zheng 5BAug 13, 2025
WHDW 03

Variants

Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.

VariantStagesMissionsStatus
Chang Zheng 5Not stated10Unknown
Chang Zheng 5BNot stated7Unknown
Chang Zheng 5
GEO
14,000 kg
Unknown
Unknown
CNSA Long March 5 page
Chang Zheng 5B
Apr 28, 2025
WHDW 01Chang Zheng 5BDec 16, 2024
Chang'e-6Chang Zheng 5May 3, 2024
TJS 11Chang Zheng 5Feb 23, 2024
Yaogan 41 MissionChang Zheng 5Dec 15, 2023

Forecasted Missions

Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.

MissionVariantAnnounced

No forecasted missions

No upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family.