Long March 12
The original Long March 12 is a two-stage liquid-oxygen and kerosene launch vehicle developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology within CASC. It introduced China's first roughly four-meter-class launch-vehicle body and serves large low-orbit and sun-synchronous payloads from Hainan's commercial launch site.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Chang Zheng 12CZ-12LM-12长征十二号
- Family Name
- Long March 12
- Full Name
- Long March 12
- Status
- active
- Type
- rocket
- Variant Name
- Base
Details
- Description
- The original Long March 12 is a two-stage liquid-oxygen and kerosene launch vehicle developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology within CASC. It introduced China's first roughly four-meter-class launch-vehicle body and serves large low-orbit and sun-synchronous payloads from Hainan's commercial launch site.
- Dimensions
- Diameter M
- 3.8
- Height M
- 62
- First Flight Year
- 2,024
- Manufacturer
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Name
- Long March 12 standard two-stage integrated configuration
- Notes
- CASC describes a two-stage LOX/kerosene launcher with four 1,250 kN pump-after-swing first-stage engines. The integrated entry keeps the family relationship exact without inferring an unnamed second-stage engine model.
- Rocket Specs
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Leo
- 12,000
- Sso
- 6,000
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 2
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_12
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- Creation Time
- July 13, 2026 at 11:47:47 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 00:15:09 UTC
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