China launches new communication technology test satellite
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit. It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin/Xinhua)
China on Saturday sent a new communication technology test satellite into space from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province.
Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-5 rocket, the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. ■
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin/Xinhua)
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Photo by Du Xinxin/Xinhua)
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-5 rocket carrying a new communication technology test satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 20, 2025. Launched at 8:30 p.m. (Beijing Time), the satellite has successfully entered its planned orbit.
It will be mainly used to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests.
The launch marks the 618th mission by the Long March carrier rocket series. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
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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.…
