TAIYUAN - China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on Sunday.

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The satellite group, the fifth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, lifted off at 6:03 pm (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully.

The launch marked the 585th mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.