A Cheng Zhang 2D (also known as the Long March 2D) has successfully lifted off from Launch Pad 9 in Taiyuan, China at 10:38 AM Beijing time (02:38 UTC) Thursday, carrying a commercial Jilin-1 Wideband-01C spacecraft and seven other Jilin satellites (HR-03D) satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit.
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