Xinhua News Agency announced the success of the Chinese space company CAS Space in launching the twenty-first group of communication satellites of the SpaceSail system into polar orbit around the Earth, in a new step in Beijing's efforts to expand the satellite networks in low orbit. The agency explained that the satellites were launched aboard the "Kinetic" transport rocket, at 8:15 a.m. local time, from the commercial launch site "Dongfeng" at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China.