Posted: Sun, Aug 4, 2024, 8:12 AM ET (1212 GMT)
China launched the second of a new, secretive series of geostationary communications satellites Thursday. A Long March 3B lifted off at 9:14 am EDT (1314 GMT) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The payload was High orbit internet satellite-02 (Weixing Hulianwan Gaogui-02), the second in a series after one launched in February. China has provided few details about the satellites or their capabilities.

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