China successfully launches a test satellite for satellite internet technology support
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket carrying a test satellite blasts off from waters off the coast of Yangjiang in south China’s Guangdong Province, April 11, 2026. China on Saturday launched a SD-3 carrier rocket from the sea, sending a test satellite into its planned orbit to promote satellite internet technology. The SD-3 rocket blasted off at 7:32 p.m. (Beijing Time) from waters off the coast of Yangjiang in south China’s Guangdong Province. (Photo by Guo Jinqi/Xinhua)
China on Saturday launched a Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket from the sea, sending a test satellite into its planned orbit to promote satellite internet technology.
The SD-3 rocket blasted off at 7:32 p.m. (Beijing Time) from waters off the coast of Yangjiang in south China’s Guangdong Province.
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center carried out this offshore launch mission.
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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.…
