JIUQUAN: China blasted off a Long March-4C rocket, sending two satellites to space on Monday.
The rocket was launched at 4:22 p.m. (local time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest and sent the satellites Shiyan-20A and Shiyan-20B into preset orbit.
The word Shiyan is used for experiment in Chinese.
China Satellites to verify in-orbit verification of latest technologies
The satellites would be used for in-orbit verification of latest technologies like space environment monitoring.
According to the launch center, the latest launch is the 454th mission of the Long March series rockets. –APP/Xinhua
