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China sends two BeiDou satellites into space
XICHANG, Nov. 23, 2019 (BSS/XINHUA) – China sent two satellites of the
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang
Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 8:55 a.m. Saturday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket and the Yuanzheng-1 (Expedition-
1) upper stage attached to the carrier rocket, the two satellites have
entered their planned orbits. They are the 50th and 51st satellites of the
BDS satellite family.
The two medium earth orbit satellites are also network satellites of the
BeiDou-3 system.
The launch was the 319th mission for the Long March series carrier
rockets.
The two new satellites, the carrier rocket and Yuanzheng-1 were all
developed by the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences and the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology under
the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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