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China launches internet satellite group

CGTN

A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on June 6, 2025. /VCG
A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on June 6, 2025. /VCG

A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on June 6, 2025. /VCG

China successfully sent a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Friday.

The satellite group, the fourth of its kind, will constitute an internet constellation. It was launched at 4:45 a.m. aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully.

The launch marked the 580th mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.

(Cover via VCG.)

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency
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