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Long March 8 rocket makes maiden flight By ZHAO LEI in Wenchang, Hainan | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-23 07:05 A crowd has turned out to watch the launch of China s new medium-lift carrier rocket Long March 8 in Wenchang, Hainan province, on Tuesday. On its maiden flight, the rocket put five satellites into orbit. LIU YANG/FOR CHINA DAILY
Five days after China concluded its historic 23-day Chang e 5 lunar mission, Chinese space engineers made a new achievement with the debut flight of the country s newest carrier rocket.
The Long March 8, the latest in China s Long March launch vehicle fleet, lifted off at 12:37 pm on Tuesday from a coastal launchpad at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China s Hainan province.
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China’s New Space Carrier Successfully Launches Five Satellites Into Orbit
China’s Long March-8 rocket was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan, officials said
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China s new medium-lift carrier rocket Long March-8 took off on Tuesday, successfully sending five satellites into planned orbit, the country s space agency said. The rocket was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan.
The five experimental satellites will carry out in-orbit verification of microwave imaging and other technologies. They will conduct experiments in space science, remote sensing and communication technologies, officials said.
The rocket was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan. The five experimental satellites will carry out the in-orbit verification of microwave imaging and other technologies. They will conduct experiments in space science, remote sensing and communication technologies, official media reported. The Long March-8 rocket which has a total length of 50.3 meters, and a take-off mass of 356 tonnes can carry a payload of at least 4.5 tonnes to a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 700 km, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. The rocket fills the gap in China s launch capability to the sun-synchronous orbit from 3 tonnes to 4.5 tonnes, and is of great significance for accelerating the upgrading of launch vehicles, it said.