Long March 6
The Long March 6 or Chang Zheng 6 as in pinyin, abbreviated LM-6 for export or CZ-6 within China, is a Chinese liquid-fuelled carrier rocket of the Long March family, which was developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology. The rocket was developed in the 2000s, and made its maiden flight in 2015.
As one of the new generation rocket family, the Long March 6 was designed to be a light capacity, "high-speed response" rocket, complementing the heavy lift Long March 5 and the mid-heavy lift Long March 7 rocket families. It is capable of placing at least of payload into a sun-synchronous orbit.
The first stage of the Long March 6 was derived from the booster rockets being developed for the Long March 5 rocket. It is powered by a YF-100 engine, which generates of thrust from burning kerosene and LOX as rocket fuel and oxidiser. This was the first flight of the new engine design.
A boosted variant, with a payload of 4 tons to sun-synchronous orbit, is under development.
List of launches
| Flight number | Date | Launch site | Payload | Orbit | Result |
| 1 | September 19, 2015 23:01 | LA-16, TSLC | ZDPS-2A ZDPS-2B NS-2 ZJ-1 ZJ-2 Tiantuo 3 NUDT-Phone-Sat Xingchen 1 Xingchen 2 Xingchen 3 Xingchen 4 LilacSat 2 XY-2 DCBB Xiwang-2A Xiwang-2B Xiwang-2C Xiwang-2D Xiwang-2E Xiwang-2F | SSO | |
| 2 | November 21, 2017 04:50 | LA-16, TSLC | Jilin-1 04 Jilin-1 05 Jilin-1 06 | SSO | |
| 3 | November 13, 2019 06:35 | LA-16, TSLC | Ningxia-1 01 Ningxia-1 02 Ningxia-1 03 Ningxia-1 04 Ningxia-1 05 | LEO |