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| Long March 2F |
Long March 2F "Shenjian" |
| Fact sheet |
| Function |
Carrier rocket |
| Manufacturer |
CALT |
| Country of origin |
 People's Republic of China |
| Size |
| Height |
62 metres (200 ft)[1] |
| Diameter |
3.35 metres (11.0 ft)[1] |
| Mass |
464,000 kilograms (1,020,000 lb)[1] |
| Stages |
2 |
| Capacity |
Payload to
LEO |
8,400 kilograms (19,000 lb)[1] |
| Associated Rockets |
| Family |
Long March |
| Launch History |
| Status |
Active |
| Launch sites |
SLS, JSLC |
| Total launches |
6 |
| Successes |
6 |
| Maiden flight |
19 November 1999 |
The Long March 2F, also known as the Chang Zheng 2F, CZ-2F, LM-2F and Shenjian[1], is a Chinese manned orbital carrier rocket. Designed to launch manned Shenzhou spacecraft, the Long March 2F is a man rated two-stage version of the Long March 2E rocket. It is launched from complex SLS at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The Long March 2F made its maiden flight on 19 November 1999, with the Shenzhou 1 spacecraft.
On 15 October 2003, a Long March 2F launched Shenzhou 5, China's first manned spaceflight. A second manned flight, Shenzhou 6, was launched on 12 October 2005.
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Ariane 5 · Atlas V · Cosmos-3M · Delta II · Delta IV · Dnepr · GSLV · H-IIA · Long March (1D, 2C, 2D, 2F, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4B, 4C) · Minotaur · Pegasus · Proton · PSLV · Rockot · Shavit · Shtil' · Start-1 · Strela · Soyuz (U, FG, 2) · Taurus · Tsyklon-3 · Volna · Zenit
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Ariane (1, 2, 3, 4) · Athena · Atlas (ICBM derived, I, II, III) · Black Arrow · Delta III · Diamant · Energia · Europa · H-II · J-I · Juno I · Juno II · Lambda · Long March (1, 2A, 2E, 3, 4A) · Mu (V) · N1 · R-7 (Molniya (M), Polyot, Sputnik, Voskhod, Vostok) · Saturn (I, IB ,V, INT-21) · Scout · Sparta · Thor · Thor-Agena · Thor-Burner · Thorad-Agena · Titan (II, III, IIIB, 34D, IV) · Tsyklon (2) · Vanguard
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