China satellite News
China had declared a 27-minute halt to flights over a section of the East China Sea, considerably shorter than the no-fly period over parts of three days it had originally announced.
Why is China suddenly sending so many satellites into space? America claims that China is doing all this to spy on its military installations.
The Chinese firm is planning the first launch this year to deliver 13 Satellogic satellites to low-Earth orbit, China Daily said.
56 am, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Named Queqiao (Magpie Bridge), the 400-kg satellite has a designed life of three years.
Zhongxing-9A was launched aboard the Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre at 12.11 a.m. (local time), reports Xinhua news agency.
It is officially operational after four months of in-orbit testing, said the report.
China plans to conduct a "record" number of 30 space launch missions this year as part of its efforts to expand its ambitious space programme.
It will have the widest observation spectrum and highest energy resolution of any dark-matter probe in the world.
The satellite produced images of 190 million square kilometres of fields for mapping, land, mining and water conservancy.
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