It was the second launch in 2 days for China.
China launched five satellites into orbit on a rocket that lifted from a platform at sea on Saturday , setting a new distance record for the country's offshore launches.
A Long March 11 solid-fueled rocket successfully launched from ocean platform in the East China Sea to deliver its payloads into orbit. It was the second launch in as many days for the, which launched two other satellites from a land-based spaceport on Friday. Saturday's sea launch marked the farthest offshore liftoff yet for China. It was the third sea launch for the country, which has"The launch site is the farthest from the port for us so far," Zhang Ming, deputy chief designer of Long March 11, told the state-run CCTV news channel, though he did not state how far the platform was offshore."The mission will accumulate technologies and experience for our sea launch in the future.
The five satellites launched by the Long March 11"will mainly provide commercial remote sensing services for industries such as land census, urban planning, and natural disaster monitoring," CCTV reported.. It came on the heels of a Long March 2 C rocket launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on land to deliver two remote-sensing satellites into orbit.
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