China’s Smart Dragon-3 rocket launches satellites from sea
Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 02 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, March 22, 2026. A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Sunday in east China’s Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 02 into the planned orbit. The rocket blasted off at 11:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch mission. (Photo by Guo Jinqi/Xinhua)
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Sunday in east China’s Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 02 into the planned orbit.
The rocket blasted off at 11:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch mission. ■
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 02 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, March 22, 2026.
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Sunday in east China’s Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 02 into the planned orbit.
The rocket blasted off at 11:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch mission. (Photo by Guo Jinqi/Xinhua)
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 02 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, March 22, 2026.
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Sunday in east China’s Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 02 into the planned orbit.
The rocket blasted off at 11:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch mission. (Photo by Guo Jinqi/Xinhua)
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying the satellite group CentiSpace 02 blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, March 22, 2026.
A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off on Sunday in east China’s Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 02 into the planned orbit.
The rocket blasted off at 11:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch mission. (Photo by Guo Jinqi/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.…
