China launched its first plate-shaped satellite into orbit last Friday, June 9.

The experimental communications satellite, Longjiang 3, was launched aboard a Kuaizhou 1A solid-propellant carrier rocket at 10:35 am local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northwestern desert, an update from the rocket’s developer, China Aerospace Science, and Industry Corp.…

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