Long March 2E
Long March 2E was a four-booster heavy derivative of Long March 2C developed for large low-orbit payloads and international commercial launches. Often paired with a solid perigee kick stage for geosynchronous missions, it flew during the 1990s before being superseded by later Long March 3 variants.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Chang Zheng 2ECZ-2ELM-2ELong March 2E/A长征二号E长征二号捆
- Family Name
- Long March 2
- Full Name
- Long March 2E
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
- Variant Name
- E
Details
- Description
- Long March 2E was a four-booster heavy derivative of Long March 2C developed for large low-orbit payloads and international commercial launches. Often paired with a solid perigee kick stage for geosynchronous missions, it flew during the 1990s before being superseded by later Long March 3 variants.
- Dimensions
- Diameter M
- 3.35
- Height M
- 49.68
- First Flight Year
- 1,990
- Last Flight Year
- 1,995
- Manufacturer
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Name
- Long March 2E standard four-booster configuration
- Notes
- CNSA describes LM-2E as a two-stage launcher built by adding four liquid strap-on boosters around the Long March 2C-derived core; all three integrated propulsion records use N2O4/UDMH and avoid unsupported engine-model inference.
- Rocket Specs
- Liftoff Mass Kg
- 461,000
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Leo
- 9,200
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 2
- Strap On Boosters Count
- 4
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- Creation Time
- July 14, 2026 at 06:26:50 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 23:29:22 UTC
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