China's Long March-8A rocket launches new internet satellites

BEIJING, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 13th Mar, 2026) China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Friday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a new group of internet satellites into space.

The rocket lifted off at 3:48 am (Beijing Time) from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. It successfully placed the payloads, the 20th group of low-orbit internet satellites, into preset orbit.