China successfully sent a group of new remote-sensing satellites into
orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's
Sichuan Province on Monday. Belonging to the Yaogan-30 family, the satellites were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 11:19 p.m. (Beijing Time). The satellites have entered the planned orbits and will be used for
electromagnetic environment detection and related technological tests. Also on board the rocket was a satellite belonging to the Tianqi
constellation. The satellite, Tianqi-6, will be used for data
transmission. The Tianqi constellation, developed by a Beijing-based
high-tech company, is for short-message communications. It was the 350th mission of the Long March rocket series.
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