China successfully launches Tianhui-6 twin satellites

A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying the twin satellites, Tianhui-6 A and Tianhui-6 B, blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province on March 10, 2023.

China successfully launched the Tianhui-6 twin satellites at 6:41 a.m. on Friday. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

TAIYUAN, March 10 (Xinhua) -- China successfully launched the Tianhui-6 twin satellites at 6:41 a.m. on Friday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province.

The twin satellites, Tianhui-6 A and Tianhui-6 B, on board a Long March-4C carrier rocket, have entered the planned orbit.

The satellites will be used for geographic mapping, land resource survey, scientific experiments and other missions.

It was the 465th mission for the Long March series of carrier rockets.

A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying the twin satellites, Tianhui-6 A and Tianhui-6 B, blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province on March 10, 2023.

China successfully launched the Tianhui-6 twin satellites at 6:41 a.m. on Friday. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying the twin satellites, Tianhui-6 A and Tianhui-6 B, blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province on March 10, 2023.

China successfully launched the Tianhui-6 twin satellites at 6:41 a.m. on Friday. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying the twin satellites, Tianhui-6 A and Tianhui-6 B, blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province on March 10, 2023.

China successfully launched the Tianhui-6 twin satellites at 6:41 a.m. on Friday. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying the twin satellites, Tianhui-6 A and Tianhui-6 B, blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province on March 10, 2023.

China successfully launched the Tianhui-6 twin satellites at 6:41 a.m. on Friday. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)