China launches third high-orbit internet services 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 carrier rocket carrying a new high-orbit internet services satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Oct. 10, 2024. The satellite was launched at 9:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered its preset orbit. It is the third member of an internet delivery high-orbit satellite group. (Photo by Li Zhiyong/Xinhua)
China sent a new high-orbit internet services satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country’s southwestern Sichuan Province.
The satellite was launched at 9:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket and then entered its preset orbit. It is the third member of an internet delivery high-orbit satellite group.
The launch was the 538th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series, the launch center said. ■
A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying a new high-orbit internet services satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Oct. 10, 2024. The satellite was launched at 9:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered its preset orbit. It is the third member of an internet delivery high-orbit satellite group. (Photo by Li Zhiyong/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.…
