China launches Fengyun-4 03 satellite
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A Long March-3B rocket carrying the Fengyun-4 03 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Dec. 27, 2025. The satellite has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Zhang Hebin/Xinhua)
China on Saturday sent a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country’s southwestern Sichuan Province.
The satellite, Fengyun-4 03, was launched by a Long March-3B rocket at 12:07 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered its planned orbit.
This was the 621st flight mission of the Long March rocket series. ■
A Long March-3B rocket carrying the Fengyun-4 03 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Dec. 27, 2025. The satellite has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Zhang Jing/Xinhua)
A Long March-3B rocket carrying the Fengyun-4 03 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Dec. 27, 2025. The satellite has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Zhang Hebin/Xinhua)
A Long March-3B rocket carrying the Fengyun-4 03 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Dec. 27, 2025. The satellite has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Yang Xi/Xinhua)
A Long March-3B rocket carrying the Fengyun-4 03 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Dec. 27, 2025. The satellite has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Zhang Hebin/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.…
