China launches new batch of internet satellites

(ECNS) -- China launched a Long March-12 carrier rocket from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site at 4:24 a.m. Beijing time on Monday, sending a batch of internet satellites into space.

The 29th batch of low-Earth-orbit internet satellites reached the intended orbit. 

A Long March-12 rocket, carrying a new group of internet satellites, blasts off from the Hainan commercial space launch site, November 9, 2026. (Photo/China News Service)

(By Gong Weiwei)