Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged congratulatory messages with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on the successful launch of the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS)-04A.

China successfully launched the satellite on a Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi Province on Friday, according to the China National Space Administration.

CBERS-04A is the sixth satellite under the Earth Resource Satellite cooperation program between the two countries.