China sent six satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province at 4:52 p.m. Beijing Time on Saturday.

They were launched by a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rocket and have entered the planned orbit successfully.

It was the second launch from the Taiyuan launch center in less than six hours after another KZ-1A rocket sent the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02B satellite into space at 10:55 a.m., setting a new record for China's aerospace industry.