China launches new test satellite for internet technology
China successfully sent a new test satellite for internet technology into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern Sichuan Province on Sunday.
The satellite was launched at 2:07 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-2D carrier rocket and has entered the preset orbits successfully.
The satellite is primarily used for technical tests and verifications for direct broadband connectivity of mobile phones with satellite and integrated space-ground network technologies.
The launch marked the 646th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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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.…
