Failure reason: Third stage engine shut down 48 seconds too early.

ChinaSat 7 or ZX 7 (Zhongxing 7) is a Hughes HS-376 model geostationary telecommunications satellite built for the China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corporation (ChinaSat). It was the first satellite ChinaSat had ordered from a western spacecraft contractor, Hughes Space and Communications International, Inc., known today as Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc.

Mission type: Communications · Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Rocket: Long March 3 · Provider: China Aerospace Corporation