Long March 3
Flight number Date ( UTC ) Launch site Payload Orbit Result
1 January 29 , 1984 12:25 LA-3 , XSLC STTW 1 GTO ( intended ) Partial Failure
2 April 8 , 1984 11:20 LA-3 , XSLC STTW 2 GTO Success
3 February 1 , 1986 12:37 LA-3 , XSLC DFH-2-1 GTO Success
4 March 7 , 1988 12:41 LA-3 , XSLC DFH-2A-1 ( ChinaSat 1 ) GTO Success
5 December 22 , 1988 12:40 LA-3 , XSLC DFH-2A-2 ( ChinaSat 2 ) GTO Success
6 February 4 , 1990 12:28 LA-3 , XSLC DFH-2A-3 ( ChinaSat 3 ) GTO Success
7 April 7 , 1990 13:30 LA-3 , XSLC AsiaSat 1 GTO Success
8 December 28 , 1991 12:00 LA-3 , XSLC DFH-2A-4 ( ChinaSat 4 ) GTO ( intended ) Failure
9 July 21 , 1994 10:55 LA-3 , XSLC APStar 1 GTO Success
10 July 3 , 1996 10:47 LA-3 , XSLC APStar 1A GTO Success
11 August 18 , 1996 10:27 LA-3 , XSLC ChinaSat 7 GTO ( intended ) Failure
12 June 10 , 1997 12:01 LA-3 , XSLC Fengyun 2A GTO Success
13 June 25 , 2000 11:50 LA-3 , XSLC Fengyun 2B GTO Success
List of launches
Main article : List of Long March launches
The Long March 3 (Chinese: 长征三号火箭), also known as the Changzheng 3, CZ-3 and LM-3, was a Chinese orbital carrier rocket design. They were all launched from Launch Area 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It was a 3-stage rocket, and was mostly used to place DFH-2-class communications satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbits. It was complemented and later replaced by the more powerful Long March 3A, which has an improved third stage.