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A Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying the Shiyan-25 satellite blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, June 20, 2023. (Photo: China News Service/Zheng Bin)
The satellite is mainly used to carry out experiments on new Earth observation technologies.
It was the 477th mission of the Long March rocket series.
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A Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying the Shiyan-25 satellite blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, June 20, 2023. (Photo: China News Service/Zheng Bin)