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China launches four PIESAT-2 earth remote sensing satellites into orbit

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Beijing: China successfully launched four PIESAT-2 Earth remote sensing satellites into orbit on Tuesday, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said in a statement.

The launch took place on Tuesday at 2:50 A.M. local time (18:50 GMT on Monday) from the Taiyuan Cosmodrome, located in Shanxi Province in northern China, using the Changzheng-2D (“Long March”) launch vehicle.

This was the 553rd mission for the Changzheng launch vehicles.

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