China launches new communication technology test satellite

A Long March-3B rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, April 11, 2025. China sent a new communication technology test satellite into the planned orbit early on Friday. The satellite was launched at 12:47 a.m. (Beijing Time). It will be used mainly to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. (Photo by Xu Lihao/Xinhua)

China sent a new communication technology test satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province early on Friday.

Launched at 12:47 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-3B rocket, the satellite has entered its planned orbit successfully, the launch center said.

It will be used mainly to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.

The launch was the 569th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series, according to the center. ■

A Long March-3B rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, April 11, 2025. China sent a new communication technology test satellite into the planned orbit early on Friday.

The satellite was launched at 12:47 a.m. (Beijing Time). It will be used mainly to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. (Photo by Xu Lihao/Xinhua)

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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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