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A Long March-4B carrier rocket carrying the resource satellite ZY-1 02D and two small satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Sept. 12, 2019. China sent a resource satellite and two small satellites into planned orbits from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Thursday. They were launched on a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11:26 a.m. Thursday Beijing Time. The resource satellite, ZY-1 02D, is developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and is an important part of China's space-based infrastructure. (Photo by Zheng Tao/Xinhua)
