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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