China launched a Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket from the waters near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday, placing eight satellites into planned orbit.

The commercial rocket blasted off on Tuesday morning (Beijing Time), carrying Tianyi-41 and other satellites, according to China's News Agency (Xinhua).

The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center carried out this offshore launch.

On September, 6, China launched ten remote sensing satellites into space to test new technologies for low-orbit satellite constellations.

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