China launches new internet satellite group
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
China launched a Long March-12 carrier rocket on Monday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a group of internet satellites into space.
The rocket lifted off at 3:48 p.m. from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. The payloads, the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites, entered into preset orbit successfully. ■
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
In this photo taken with slow shutter speed, the Long March-12 carrier rocket, carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 19th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 19, 2026. (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.…
