China Successfully Launches the 25th Set of Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites for the Satellite Internet

At 8:32 a.m. Beijing time on September 17, China successfully used the Long March 12 carrier rocket at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site to send the 25th batch of loworbit satellites for the satellite internet into the planned orbit, completing the mission successfully. According to the report, the Long March 12 is a newgeneration cryogenic liquid carrier rocket developed by the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is also China's first carrier rocket with a 4meterclass diameter and a singlecore stage. It is about 62 meters long, and its payload capacity for a 700kilometer sunsynchronous orbit is no less than 6 tons. This launch was the 667th launch of the Long March series of carrier rockets, showing China's continued progress in commercial spaceflight and loworbit satellite launch capabilities.