It's China's first carrier rocket to feature solid strap-on boosters.
featuring four solid strap-on boosters successfully launched two satellites to orbit on Tuesday , according to media reports.
"The modified rocket is China's first type of carrier rocket equipped with solid strap-on boosters," the state-run Chinese broadcaster ."It uses non-toxic and non-polluting propellants and can send satellites to the sun-synchronous orbit."A Chinese Long March 6 rocket with four solid strap-on boosters launches two satellites to space on March 29, 2022.
Satellites in a sun-synchronous orbit, or SSO, pass over the same patch of land at the same time every day. SSO spacecraft go over Earth's poles and generally orbit between 370 miles and 500 miles above our planet,The Long March 6 lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China's Shanxi Province at 5:50 p.m. on Tuesday, CCTV+ wrote.
Though this particular rocket version had never flown before, it was far from the first Long March mission: The venerable
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