China successfully launches new satellite group
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite group blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province on Oct. 17, 2025. The satellite group, which will constitute the Spacesail Constellation — a commercial Chinese low-orbit satellite network– was launched at 3:08 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered its preset orbit successfully. (Photo by Wang Yapeng/Xinhua)
China sent a new satellite group into space on Friday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province.
The satellite group, which will constitute the Spacesail Constellation — a commercial Chinese low-orbit satellite network– was launched at 3:08 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket and entered its preset orbit successfully.
This launch marked the 601st flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series. ■
A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite group blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province on Oct. 17, 2025. The satellite group, which will constitute the Spacesail Constellation — a commercial Chinese low-orbit satellite network, was launched at 3:08 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered its preset orbit successfully. (Photo by Wang Yapeng/Xinhua)
A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite group blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province on Oct. 17, 2025. The satellite group, which will constitute the Spacesail Constellation — a commercial Chinese low-orbit satellite network– was launched at 3:08 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered its preset orbit successfully.
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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.…
