China's rocket launches Pakistan remote-sensing satellite into orbit

CAS Space, a leading commercial rocket maker in China, launched the ninth rocket in its Kinetica 1 series on Sunday morning, successfully putting three satellites into their preset orbital positions. The rocket lifted off at 11:33 am from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert and then placed the payloads — two synthetic aperture radar satellite, and the HS-1, Pakistan's first hyperspectral imaging satellite — into orbit... More

(Source: China Daily HK - Oct 20)