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A Long March-2C carrier rocket, with the Yuanzheng-1S (Expedition-1S) upper stage attached to the rocket, carrying a test satellite for satellite internet technology, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Sept 16, 2025. [Photo\/Xinhua] China launched several experimental satellites into space on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation’s leading space contractor. The satellites, part of the Space-based Internet Technology Demonstrator series, were carried into their preset orbit by a Long March 2C carrier rocket that blasted off at 9:06 am from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s Gobi Desert. The mission marked the seventh orbital deployment of satellites in the Space-based Internet Technology Demonstrator series. The first launch of such satellites took place in July 2023. A notable feature of the mission is that one of the satellites is equipped with a set of full-flexible solar panels that can be rolled up. Developed by GalaxySpace, a Beijing-headquartered private satellite company, the satellite is the world’s first to have such an apparatus. Designers said that when fully folded, the solar panels have a combined area as large as a standard meeting room, and when rolled up, their diameter is as small as a coffee cup. The new design not only greatly reduces the weight and space needed for solar panels but also facilitates multi-satellite launches, according to the developers. A product of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing, the Long March 2C rocket is 43 meters long and 3.35 meters wide and has a liftoff weight of 242.5 metric tons. The rocket is mainly used to deploy satellites to low-Earth and sun-synchronous orbits. The launch marked the 595th mission of the Long March family and China’s 56th rocket launch in 2025. \n A Long March-2C carrier rocket, with the Yuanzheng-1S (Expedition-1S) upper stage attached to the rocket, carrying a test satellite for satellite internet technology, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Sept 16, 2025. [Photo\/Xinhua] China launched several experimental satellites into space on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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