A 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 May 7. [Photo/Xinhua]
XICHANG — China successfully sent a remote-sensing satellite group into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province on May 7.
Belonging to the Yaogan-30 family, the satellites were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 2:11 am 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.
A Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province, May 7, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province, May 7, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province, May 7, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
