3 foreign satellites among 9 launched by Kinetica 1

CAS Space, a leading commercial rocket maker, launched the 11th Kinetica 1 carrier rocket on Wednesday afternoon, deploying nine satellites, including three for the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Nepal. The rocket lifted off at 12:03 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China and successfully placed the payloads into their preset orbits, the company said in a statement. The satellites included six Chinese multifunctional satellites, an Earth-observation satellite for the UAE, a scientific satellite for Egypt and an educational satellite for Nepal. More

(Source: China Daily - Dec 12)