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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">China launched the first satellite in a new series last week to offer internet services to China and the surrounding areas.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">The Long March 3B/G rocket took up on February 29 at 8:03 a.m. Eastern (1303 UTC) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Shortly after takeoff, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) declared the launch successful. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"><img alt="China launches first high orbit Internet satellite" src="http://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/imgs/20240305/china-launches-its-first-internet-satellite-in-high-orbit-1.jpg" style="display:block; height:423px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:640px"></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><em>China launches first high orbit Internet satellite</em></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">According to CASC's announcement, High orbit satellite internet-01 (Weixing Hulianwan Gaogui-01) was the previously unknown payload.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">A Long March 3B/G launch was scheduled to depart from Xichang on February 29, as stated by Aerospace closure notices. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">This suggests that the payload was probably intended for geosynchronous transfer orbit. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">Not to be confused with high Earth orbit (HEO), high orbit in Chinese also refers to orbits above low Earth orbit.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">The satellite's details were not disclosed in the first official Chinese media report on the launch. </p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify">All that CASC disclosed about the satellite was that it was created by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), a leading spacecraft manufacturer.</p>

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