The FG-36 (AKA Fengyun 2 AKM) was a Chinese spin stabilized

apogee kick motor An apogee kick motor (AKM) is a rocket motor that is regularly employed on artificial satellites to provide the final impulse to change the trajectory from the transfer orbit into its final orbit (most commonly circular). For a satellite laun ...

burning

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-based

composite propellant Ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP) is a solid rocket propellant. It differs from many traditional solid rocket propellants such as black powder or zinc-sulfur, not only in chemical composition and overall performance but also by b ...

. It was developed by

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(also known as the 6th Academy of

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) for use in the Fengyun 2 satellite bus for insertion into GSO orbit. It has a total nominal mass of , of which is propellant load and its burn out mass is . It has an average thrust of with a

specific impulse Specific impulse (usually abbreviated ) is a measure of how efficiently a reaction mass engine, such as a rocket engine, rocket using propellant or a jet engine using fuel, generates thrust. In general, this is a ratio of the ''Impulse (physics), ...

of 289 seconds burning for 43 seconds, with a total impulse of . While it was designed as an apogee kick motor and as such it flew in spin stabilized mode, it was also adapted to the

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third stage. It was paired with a

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in a similar solution to the

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