Long March 4C


The Long March 4C, also known as the Chang Zheng 4C, CZ-4C and LM-4C, previously designated Long March 4B-II, is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. It is launched from the Jiuquan, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre and Xichangs, and consists of 3 stages. Long March 4C vehicles have been used to launch the Yaogan-1, Yaogan-3 SAR satellites and the Fengyun-3A polar orbiting meteorological satellite. On December 15, 2009 a Long March 4C was used to launch Yaogan 8.
Because it was still designated as Long March 4B-II at the time of its maiden flight, the first launch is often mistaken for a Long March 4B. The Long March 4C is derived from the Long March 4B, but features a restartable upper stage, and a larger payload fairing.
On September 1, 2016, the Long March-4C failed for reasons not yet known. A Long March 4C rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi but failed to insert its payload, the Gaofen-10 satellite, into its designated orbit.

List of launches

Flight numberDate Launch sitePayloadOrbitResult
1April 26, 2006
22:48		LA-7, TSLCYaogan 1SSO
2November 11, 2007
22:48		LA-7, TSLCYaogan 3SSO
3May 27, 2008
03:02		LA-7, TSLCFengyun 3ASSO
4December 15, 2009
02:31		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 8
Xiwang 1		SSO
5March 5, 2010
04:55		LA-4/SLS-2, JSLCYaogan 9A
Yaogan 9B
Yaogan 9C		LEO
6August 9, 2010
22:49		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 10SSO
7November 4, 2010
18:37		LA-9, TSLCFengyun 3BSSO
8May 29, 2012
07:31		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 15SSO
9November 25, 2012
04:06		LA-4/SLS-2, JSLCYaogan 16A
Yaogan 16B
Yaogan 16C		LEO
10July 19, 2013
23:37		LA-9, TSLCShijian 15
Shiyan-7
Chuangxin-3		SSO
11September 1, 2013
19:16		LA-4/SLS-2, JSLCYaogan 17A
Yaogan 17B
Yaogan 17C		LEO
12September 23, 2013
03:07		LA-9, TSLCFengyun 3CSSO
13November 20, 2013
03:31		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 19SSO
14August 9, 2014
05:45		LA-4/SLS-2, JSLCYaogan 20A
Yaogan 20B
Yaogan 20C		LEO
15October 20, 2014
06:31		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 22SSO
16December 10, 2014
19:33		LA-4/SLS-2, JSLCYaogan 25A
Yaogan 25B
Yaogan 25C		LEO
17August 27, 2015
02:31		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 27SSO
18November 26, 2015
21:24		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 29SSO
19August 9, 2016
22:55		LA-9, TSLCGaofen 3SSO
20August 31, 2016
18:50		LA-9, TSLCGaofen 10SSO
21November 14, 2017
18:35		LA-9, TSLCFengyun 3D
HEAD-1		SSO
22March 31, 2018
03:22		LA-9, TSLCGaofen-1 02
Gaofen-1 03
Gaofen-1 04		SSO
23April 10, 2018
04:25		LA-4/SLS-2, JSLCYaogan 31-01A
Yaogan 31-01B
Yaogan 31-01C		LEO
24May 8, 2018
18:28		LA-9, TSLCGaofen 5SSO
25May 20, 2018
21:28		LA-3, XSLCQueqiao
Longjiang-1
Longjiang-2		Earth–Moon L2
26May 22, 2019
22:49		LA-9, TSLCYaogan 33SSO
27October 4, 2019
18:51		LA-9, TSLCGaofen 10-2SSO
28November 27, 2019
23:52		LA-9, TSLCGaofen 12SSO