These satellites include — Jilin 1 Gaofen 03D09 satellite
and Yunyao 1 04-08 and were launched by a Long March 6 carrier rocket at 12:50
pm in China (12:20am IST) and entered the planned orbit successfully, China
Daily reported.
According to media reports, the new batch of satellites is
mainly used in the fields such as commercial remote sensing and atmospheric
imaging.
Earlier on July 16, China launched a Long March-2C carrier
rocket to place two satellites in space, Global Times reported. The pair of
satellites include — Siwei 03 and 04,
were lifted from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province
of Shanxi.
China also launched Wentian, the first lab module of its
space station.
As per local media, the new module will function both as a
backup of the core module and as a powerful scientific experiment platform.
China's Shenzhou-13 mission last year was a major step for
the country's young space programme, which is rapidly becoming one of the
world's most advanced.
According to CNN, China's space programme was established in
the early 1970s, years after American astronaut Neil Armstrong had already
landed on the moon.
Aided by the economic reforms of the 1980s, China's space
programme progressed until the launch of the first crewed mission in 2003. The
Chinese have since invested billions of dollars into the space programme — and
the payoff has been evident.
China successfully landed an exploratory rover on the moon
in December 2020 and one on Mars in May 2021.
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