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China Launches New Batch of Low-Orbit Internet Satellites Into Space
Artist’s impression of the Khayyam earth imaging satellite.
BEIJING (Sputnik) — China has successfully launched a group of low-Earth-orbit internet satellites into orbit, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Friday. «The launch was fully successful,» CASC wrote on social media. A Long March-8A carrier rocket lifted off at 07:26 local time (23:26 GMT) from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island, the corporation added. This was the 620th mission carried out by a rocket from the Long March family.
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