📊 Analysis
Statistics & insights on rockets and organizations — technology, history, numbers.
Long March 3A
ActiveChina Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Key figures
Total launches
27
Successes
27
Failures
0
Success rate
100.0 %
Success streak
27
Maiden flight
Feb 8, 1994
Reusable
No
Shortest launch interval ⓘ
23d 4h
Planned launches
0
Long March, Long March 3 family total
176 launches · 168 successes · 8 failures (8 variants)
🧐 Data check
Automatic plausibility checks — anomalies are surfaced transparently here:
- ℹ️The figures above apply only to the “Long March 3A” variant. The Launch Library counts each variant separately — the Long March, Long March 3 family totals 176 launches across 8 variants.
Technology
Length
52.5 m
Diameter
3.35 m
Launch mass
240 t
Liftoff thrust
2,962 kN
Stages
1–3
GTO (geo transfer)
2,300 kg
Launches per year
of which in our database: 27
Successes Failures Other/planned
History & events
Sources
- Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs)
- Wikipedia