CAS Space, a leading commercial rocket maker in China, launched the 13th rocket in its Kinetica 1 series on Friday afternoon.

The rocket, which lifted off at 12:33 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert, placed five satellites into their preset orbital positions.

The mission was China's 32nd space launch this year.

One of the satellites, named Youxi, is equipped with two high-definition display screens and five multi-angle selfie cameras.

Over the next five years, it will continuously broadcast user-generated videos by internet users from across the globe into space.

Meanwhile, it will send back footage of its on-screen broadcasts and images of the Earth's curved horizon, according to CAS Space.

To date, CAS Space has used its Kinetica 1 and Kinetica 2 rockets to help clients deploy 100 satellites with a combined weight of more than 18 metric tons.

Thanks to their performance, the company, a commercial venture invested by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, possesses the biggest share in the domestic commercial launch market.

The Kinetica 1 model — with a length of 30 meters, a diameter of 2.65 meters, and a liftoff weight of 135 tons — is capable of deploying satellites with a combined weight of 1.5 tons to a typical sun-synchronous orbit about 500 kilometers above Earth.