China Launched Eight Satellites 0 7

A Chinese rocket has launched eight satellites into low Earth orbit. This was reported by the Xinhua News Agency.

The Kuaizhou-11 Y7 carrier, with the spacecraft Juntian-1-04A, Dongpo (three satellites), Yuxing-3 (two), Weitong-1-01, and Xiguang-1-06, lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in northwestern China on March 16 at 07:12 Moscow time.

On March 13, the Long March 2D rocket carrying the experimental Earth observation satellites Shiyan-30 03 and Shiyan-30 04 was launched from the Sichuan launch site in Sichuan Province in southwestern China.