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China launches new remote-sensing satellite

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A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Yaogan-39 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China's Sichuan Province, December 10, 2023. /China Media Group
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Yaogan-39 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China's Sichuan Province, December 10, 2023. /China Media Group

A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Yaogan-39 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China's Sichuan Province, December 10, 2023. /China Media Group

China sent a remote-sensing satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sunday.

The satellite, coded as Yaogan-39, was atop a Long March-2D carrier rocket which lifted off at 9:58 a.m. Beijing Time.

It has entered the preset orbit.

Sunday's launch was the 500th flight mission of the Long March rocket series.

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