“On Tuesday morning, we launched 8 new satellites into space, using a Chinese Jielong-3 rocket,” the company said on its WeChat page.
The company indicated that the rocket was launched from a platform installed on a special barge in the Yellow Sea near the coast of eastern Shandong Province, and the launch was carried out at exactly 10:31 Beijing time (05:31 Moscow time), and that the project to launch these satellites was worked on in cooperation with experts from the Chinese Taiyuan Space Airport.
The satellites sent into orbit include Tianyi-41, three Xing Shidai satellites, Emposat-2-05, Fudan-1, Tianyan-15 and Jitianxing-A-01.
The Jielong-3 rocket used in the launch is a solid-fuel space rocket, 31 meters long, 3.35 meters in diameter, and can carry payloads weighing up to 1.5 tons.
China has been actively developing its national space program in recent years, launching several satellites for meteorological services, remote sensing services, communications and navigation services, and working on projects to study asteroids and Mars. It also has an orbital station in space dedicated to scientific research. Last year, it carried out 67 space launches, and plans to carry out 100 more space launches this year.
Source: TASS
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2024-09-24 14:36:22
