China blasts off 2nd orbital flight within 24 hours

China’s blasts off 3 orbital launches in 4 days. On Saturday it successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the country’s southwestern Sichuan province, on Nov 06, 11AM Beijing Time. The satellites, belonging to the Yaogan-35 family, were launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully, according to the Xinhua news agency. This launch marked the 396th mission for the Long March series carrier rockets.