\<COLOUR 1> PROPELLANTS: \<COLOUR 0> First two stages, UDMH/nitrogen tetroxide
\<COLOUR 1> PAYLOAD: \<COLOUR 0> Satellites into low Earth orbit
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Jiuquan Space Centre, Shuang Cheng-tzu, Inner Mongolia
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> CHINA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> Also called CZ-1 (CZ standing for Changzheng, meaning Long March), launches first Chinese satellite on April 24, 1970; developed from a ballistic missile; the taller (32.8 metres) and more powerful (280 tonnes) two-stage Long March 2 is introduced in July 1975; variants are still current.