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China launches low Earth orbit satellite group

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Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror

China launches low Earth orbit satellite group
China launches low Earth orbit satellite group

A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, July 30, 2025. China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the launch site here on Wednesday. The satellite group, the sixth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 3:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan on Wednesday.

The satellite group, the sixth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 3:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully.

The launch marked the 586th mission of the Long March series carrier rockets. ■

China launches low Earth orbit satellite group

A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, July 30, 2025. China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the launch site here on Wednesday.

The satellite group, the sixth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 3:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

China launches low Earth orbit satellite group

A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, July 30, 2025. China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the launch site here on Wednesday.

The satellite group, the sixth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 3:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

China launches low Earth orbit satellite group

A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, July 30, 2025. China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the launch site here on Wednesday.

The satellite group, the sixth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 3:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20250730/55efd23d604d44858f42015beb39984b/c.html

Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

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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