China's Kuaizhou 1A rocket launches four new satellites
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JIUQUAN -- China successfully launched a Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket to send four new satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:20 am (Beijing Time) on Thursday.
The four satellites, belonging to the Tianmu 1 meteorological constellation, have entered the planned orbit.
They will mainly be used to provide commercial meteorological data services.
It was the 21st flight mission using a Kuaizhou 1A commercial carrier rocket.
[Video/Weibo account of CCTV4]
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