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China successfully launches new group of SAR satellites

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A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying a new group of synthetic aperture radar satellites blasts off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, December 17, 2024. /CMG
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying a new group of synthetic aperture radar satellites blasts off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, December 17, 2024. /CMG

A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying a new group of synthetic aperture radar satellites blasts off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, December 17, 2024. /CMG

China successfully sent a new group of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Tuesday.

The four satellites of PIESAT-2 were launched at 02:50 (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and has entered its planned orbit successfully.

The launch marks the 553rd flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.

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