Chinese Long March-8A rocket launches new internet satellite group
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A Long March-8A carrier rocket, carrying the 23rd group of the low-orbit internet constellation, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 4, 2026. China sent a new batch of internet satellites into orbit on Tuesday in the southern island province of Hainan. The satellites lifted off aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket at 4:52 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. (Photo by Meng Zhongde/Xinhua)
China sent a new batch of internet satellites into orbit on Tuesday from a commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan.
The satellites, the 23rd group of the low-orbit internet constellation, lifted off aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket at 4:52 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. ■
A Long March-8A carrier rocket, carrying the 23rd group of the low-orbit internet constellation, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 4, 2026. China sent a new batch of internet satellites into orbit on Tuesday in the southern island province of Hainan.
The satellites lifted off aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket at 4:52 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. (Photo by Meng Zhongde/Xinhua)
A Long March-8A carrier rocket, carrying the 23rd group of the low-orbit internet constellation, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 4, 2026. China sent a new batch of internet satellites into orbit on Tuesday in the southern island province of Hainan.
The satellites lifted off aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket at 4:52 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. (Photo by Liu Jianqiu/Xinhua)
A Long March-8A carrier rocket, carrying the 23rd group of the low-orbit internet constellation, blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 4, 2026. China sent a new batch of internet satellites into orbit on Tuesday in the southern island province of Hainan.
The satellites lifted off aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket at 4:52 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits 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.…
