Ziyuan-3-04

Name: Ziyuan-3-04
Start: 2025-12-16T03:17:00.000Z
End: 2025-12-16T03:39:00.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 9

Long March 4B, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Launch time

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Tue 16 Dec, 04:17 CET

03:17 UTC

Minute precision Launch successful

The rocket put its payload into the planned orbit.

Window opens: Tue 16 Dec, 04:10 CET
Window closes: Tue 16 Dec, 04:39 CET

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Launch record updated by LL2 Tue 16 Dec 2025, 23:59 CET

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Mission

Ziyuan-3-04 on Long March 4B. Tue 16 Dec 2025, 03:17 UTC. Reported outcome: Success. Launch site: Launch Complex 9. Source: Launch Library 2.

The ZY-3 (Ziyuan-3, 'Resource-3') series represents China's first high-resolution, stereoscopic mapping satellites for civilian use. The second satellite is managed by the Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Center (SASMAC). The imaging payload consists of a three-line camera array and a multispectral imager. The three-line panchromatic camera array to acquire stereoscopic imagery consists of three telescopic cameras with one oriented to the nadir and the other two each offset by 22° forward and backward in flight direction. The stereo mapping camera of ZY-3 has a resolution of 2.1 m for the nadir camera, and 2.6 m for the offset cameras. The swath width is 51 km. The multispectral imager for environmental and vegetation monitoring consists of a three-mirror telescope and a cooled detector system sensitive to four wavelength bands to capture full-color imagery as well as near-infrared data. The ground resolution of this system is 5.8 m.

Mission type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Mission patches

CZ-4B Ziyuan-3-04

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Tue 16 Dec 2025, 03:45 UTCLL2 update
Launch success.
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Fri 12 Dec 2025, 03:35 UTCLL2 update
Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload and launch vehicle identities uncertain.
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Launch pad

Launch Complex 9

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China (CN)

Coordinates: 38.863128, 111.589567

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