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Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Xichang Satellite
Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 7, 2021. China
successfully sent a remote-sensing satellite group into orbit from the
Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Friday. [Photo/Xinhua] China
successfully sent a remote-sensing satellite group into orbit from the
Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on
Friday. Belonging to the Yaogan-30 family, the satellites were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 2:11 a.m. Beijing time. The satellites will be used for electromagnetic environmental detection and related technological tests. Also
aboard was a satellite belonging to the Tianqi constellation. The
satellite, Tianqi-12, will be used for data collection and transmission. It was the 369th mission of the Long March rocket series.
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