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China launches a low Earth orbit satellite group

By News Desk 1 min read

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

China launches a low Earth orbit satellite group
China launches a low Earth orbit satellite group
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 Sept. 27, 2025. (Photo by Shang Yuhang/Xinhua)

China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Saturday.

The satellite group, the eleventh of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 8:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket.

The satellites entered preset orbit successfully.

Saturday’s launch marked the 597th mission of the Long March carrier rockets.

Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20250928/85d5abd18c9a40a7aa7c8cdee075e717/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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