All launches
Success
Demo Flight
Long March 12AChina Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationLong March 12 series Pad
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 · 02:00 AM UTC
This mission is complete.
Mission brief
The mission
First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
PayloadDemo Flight
OrbitLEO
CustomerChina Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Stages2
PadLong March 12 series Pad, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Flight plan
Mission timeline
14 / 14100%
The range
Where it leaves Earth
Launch site
Ground vector
Site locked
Long March 12 series Pad
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Global range
- Latitude
- 40.892°N
- Longitude
- 100.217°E
Can I see this?
Distance and a plain visibility call from a place you choose. Trajectory is not modeled — night launches travel farther across the sky than daylight ones.
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Range weather
Launch commit criteria
Clear
Watch
TrackingNo active constraints
Weather rules
Clear — tracking no weather issues at this time.
- Primary concern
- No weather issues
- Rule count
- 0
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
Window
01:54 AM UTC – 04:14 AM UTC
Hardware
Vehicle & provider
Reliability
Schedule history
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.