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A Long March-3B
carrier rocket blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in
southwest China's Sichuan Province on Nov. 12, 2020. China successfully
launched Tiantong 1-02, a new mobile telecommunication satellite, from
the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. The satellite was
launched at 23:59 (Beijing Time) by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.
(Photo by Guo Wenbin/Xinhua)
China successfully launched a new mobile telecommunication satellite
from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan
Province on Thursday. The Tiantong 1-02 satellite was launched at 23:59 (Beijing Time) by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. Tiantong-1 is a satellite mobile communication system independently
developed and built by China. It consists of a space segment, ground
segment, and user terminal. Developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, the Tiantong 1-02
satellite will establish a mobile network with ground facilities to
provide all-weather, all-time, stable and reliable mobile communication
services such as voice, short message and data for users in China and
its surrounding areas, the Middle East, Africa and other related
regions, as well as most sea areas in the Pacific Ocean and Indian
Ocean. Thursday's launch was the 352nd by the Long March rocket series.
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