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(ECNS) -- China on Saturday sent a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
The Shiyan-20 C satellite was launched at 9:01 a.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-2D carrier rocket.
The satellite will be mainly used for in-orbit verification of new technologies such as space environment monitoring.
The launch marked the 445th mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.