A Long March 3B/G3 (CZ-3B/G3) rocket successfully lifted off from its launch pad at the Xichang launch site in China at 1155 GMT on 10 March 2020. Aboard was a Beidou navigation satellite for the constellation that its the Chinese equivalent of GPS. The Beidou-3 G2Q satellite will use its own propulsion to stabilise itself into its a GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit) orbital position.
Long March 3B/G3 launches Beidou-3 G2Q from Xichang. Courtesy: Xinhua
The Beidou constellation hasmost of its thirty satellite complement in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), however, three satellites located in highly inclined geosynchronous orbit, along with three located in a full geostationary orbital positions. This satellite was one of these.
