China has launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket, setting a new national record for the most spacecraft transported on a single mission. The rocket sent 41 small remote-sensing satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province. The event marked China’s 24th rocket launch this year and the 476th mission of the Long March family. The Long March 2D is capable of sending a 1.3-ton spacecraft into a sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of 700 kilometers, or satellites with a combined weight of 4 tons into a low-Earth orbit. The satellites launched were built by Changguang Satellite Technology and will be used in fields such as industrial analysis, regional survey, land resources mapping, mineral development and urban construction planning.
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