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China launches new satellite for space environment survey

Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-09 07:41

China successfully sends an experiment satellite into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on April 9, 2021. [Photo by Zheng Taotao provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

TAIYUAN - China successfully sent an experiment satellite into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi province Friday.

The satellite, the third of the Shiyan-6 series, was launched by a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 7:01 am (Beijing Time).

It will be used to carry out space environment survey and experiments on related technologies.

Friday's launch was the 365th by the Long March rocket series.

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