China's newest Long March-6C carrier rocket successfully made its first flight on Tuesday and delivered several satellites into orbit, the state-run China Central Television reported.
The rocket was launched at 11:21 local time (03:21 GMT) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, located in China's northern Shanxi Province.
Long March-6C is a two-stage-to-orbit liquid-fueled rocket carrier, which is planned to be used to perform launches to low-Earth and heliosynchronous orbits.
The rocket has the height of 43 meters (141 feet) and the launch mass of about 215 tonnes. It can deliver a payload of up to 2.4 tonnes to a heliosynchronous orbit.
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