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China has successfully launched five satellites using the Changzheng 2D (CZ-2D, Long March-2D) launch vehicle. This was reported by the Xinhua news agency.
The launch took place at 10:51 local time (05:51 Moscow time) from the Taiyuan cosmodrome in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi. The launch vehicle carried the Jilin-1 01B satellite (Jilin-1 01B), three Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D satellites and one Xingshidai-10 satellite. The launch was the 376th in a row for the Changzheng series launch vehicles.
The PRC is actively developing its space program. In the first decade of the 21st century, China successfully launched 87 satellites into orbit.
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