CAS Space placed 18 Qianfan spacecraft into the Chinese aerospace company CAS paid into low Earth orbit 21 batch of 18 polar-orbit space communication satellites - in China they are called "Qianfan". Xinhua reports that the launch took place at 08:15 Beijing time (03:15 MSK) from the commercial site "Dongfeng" Jiuquan Cosmoodrome in the north of the country. The carrier was a two-stage Kinetica-2 rocket with a length of 52 meters with an initial thrust of more than 7.5 thousand kilotons - for it this is the second flight after the debut on March 30. The devices join the G60 group, which is managed by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with the support of the Shanghai government. The satellites operate in the line, Q and V bands and are intended for the global space communication system. Earlier, China revealed the details of the lunar plan: first, robots will open a house for astronauts, then people will arrive with a car. Follow OBKOR.

CAS Space placed 18 Qianfan spacecraft into the Chinese aerospace company CAS paid into low Earth orbit 21 batch of 18 polar-orbit space communication satellites - in China they are called "Qianfan". Xinhua reports that the launch took place at 08:15 Beijing time (03:15 MSK) from the commercial site "Dongfeng" Jiuquan Cosmoodrome in the north of the country. The carrier was a two-stage Kinetica-2 rocket with a length of 52 meters with an initial thrust of more than 7.5 thousand kilotons - for it this is the second flight after the debut on March 30. The devices join the G60 group, which is managed by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with the support of the Shanghai government. The satellites operate in the line, Q and V bands and are intended for the global space communication system. Earlier, China revealed the details of the lunar plan: first, robots will open a house for astronauts, then people will arrive with a car. Follow OBKOR.