Tianying-3C
Launch vehicle · China
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Chinese sounding rocket. Single-stage sounding rocket.
Subtopics
- Tianying-3E Chinese sounding rocket.
- Tianying-3F Chinese two-stage sounding rocket using a Tianying 3C as the second stage and a larger first stage.
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- Country
- China
Chronology
3 events
2011 May 6
23:02 GMT - . Launch Site: Hainan. Launch Vehicle: Tianying-3C.- Kunpeng-1 - . Nation: China. Apogee: 197 km (122 mi).
2013 April 4
21:55 GMT - . Launch Site: Hainan. LV Family: Tianying-3C. Launch Vehicle: Tianying-3E.- Kunpeng-1 - . Nation: China. Apogee: 191 km (118 mi). Ionosphere mission..
2016 April 26
17:00 GMT - . Launch Site: Hainan. LV Family: Tianying-3C. Launch Vehicle: Tianying-3F.- Kunpeng-1B - .
Nation: China.
Apogee: 316 km (196 mi).
Ionosphere mission. Impacted in S China Sea. The Hainan sounding rocket station was a small facility at 109 07E 19 31 N, on the other side of Hainan from the new Wenchang Space Center. The TY-3F sounding rocket had a booster stage added to the earlier single-stage Tianying design, to increase its apogee