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China's commercial rocket sends 5 satellites, eyes monthly launch

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"Starting from this mission, we aim to achieve approximately one launch per month," Shi Xiaoning, the chief designer of a commercial carrier rocket, told CGTN.

This ambitious goal will be gradually achieved by CAS Space, a commercial space company that developed Lijian-1 (or Kinetica-1). On Wednesday, it successfully put five satellites into the preset dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbits from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

The five satellites, two as pioneers for the company's AIRSAT satellite constellation, a Jilin-1 SAR01A, and the Yunyao-1 21 and 22, are mainly for land surveys, meteorological observations and other fields, according to the company.

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