Long March-8 first launch

The first Long March-8 launch vehicle (Long March-8 Y1) was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center Hainan Province, China, on 22 December 2020, at 04:37 UTC (12:37 local time). Long March-8 is a new “low-cost commercial medium launch vehicle” developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). According to CNSA, Long March-8 has a payload capacity of over 4.5 tonnes to a 700 km altitude sun-synchronous orbit and 2.8 tons to geostationary transfer orbit. On its first launch, L