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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
TAIYUAN, May 11 (Xinhua) — China on Sunday launched a new group of remote sensing satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province.
The Yaogan-40-02 satellite group was launched at 21:27 Beijing time using a modified version of the Long March-6 launch vehicle and successfully entered the designated orbit, the cosmodrome said.
These spacecraft will be primarily used to measure electromagnetic field parameters and test related technologies.
The current launch was the 574th flight mission for the Long March series of launch vehicles. –0–