The agency said in a publication: “Today, Monday, China launched the Long March 12 rocket from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Center, which carried into orbit a group of satellites designated to provide Internet services to Earth.”

The agency indicated that the missile was launched at exactly 05:41 a.m. Moscow time, and all the satellites successfully reached their required orbit.

According to Xinhua, the batch of satellites launched today is the 13th batch of Chinese Guowang satellites dedicated to providing Internet services. China had launched the previous batch of these satellites on board a Chinese Long March 8A rocket.

In general, China Satellite Network Group plans to launch 13,000 Guowang satellites to provide Internet services to Earth, and its satellites will compete with the “Starlink” satellites of the American company “SpaceX”.

In recent years, China has been actively developing its national space program. It has launched many satellites dedicated to meteorological services, remote sensing services, communications and navigation services, and is working on projects to study asteroids and Mars. It also has an orbital station in space dedicated to scientific research, and last year it carried out 67 space launches.

Source: Linta.ru