The Long March 6C, the latest member of China's Long March carrier rocket family, conducted its debut flight on Tuesday morning, sending four small satellites into space.▲A Long March-6C carrier rocket carrying four satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province, May 7, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]The 43-meter-tall rocket blasted off at 11:21 am from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in a mountainous part of Shanxi province and placed four satellites — a radar satellite, an optical remote-sensing satellite, and two experimental satellites — into their preset orbits, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, the developer of the rocket model and a subsidiary of State-owned conglomerate China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.The two-stage launch vehicle has a diameter of 3.35 meters and is propelled by three engines consuming liquid oxygen and kerosene.With an overall liftoff weight of 215 metric tons, the model is
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