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China's state-owned company ExPace on Wednesday launched the Kuaizhou-1A launch vehicle (Kuaizhou-1A, KZ-1A) into space with a new remote sensing satellite.
China's central television CCTV reports this, Ukrinform reports.
The launch vehicle carrying the Haishao-1 spacecraft (Haishao-1) launched from a mobile launcher at the Xichang Cosmodrome in southwestern Sichuan Province at 12:46 local time (6:46 Kyiv time).
The Haishao-1 satellite weighs about 400 kg and was developed by Chinese specialists for high-resolution optical and radar observation of the Earth's surface.
Today's mission was the 33rd flight of commercial solid-fuel launch vehicles of the Kuizhou series (from China's Fast Boat), designed to cheaply and quickly launch small satellites into orbit.
Photo: cctv
