MISSION NAME
INTELSAT 708 708
Status
Failure
DATE
14 FEB 1996
LAUNCH PROVIDER
China Aerospace Corporation
Launch Pad
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
Description
Geostationary communications satellite
Long March 3B
Rocket Description
The Long March 3B is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. Introduced in 1996, it is launched from Launch Area 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan. A three-stage rocket with four strap-on liquid rocket boosters, it is currently the most powerful member of the Long March rocket family and the heaviest of the Long March 3 rocket family, and is mainly used to place communications satellites into geosynchronous orbits.