12 May 2020
At 9:16 BJT, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp launched Xingyun 2-01 and Xingyun 2-02, the first satellites in the Xingyun constellation atop a Kuaizhou 1A solid-propellant carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern China. Both satellites entered a sun-synchronous orbit at 561 km above the Earth. In a move to honor the people of Wuhan, the rocket was decorated with a symbolic picture showing the front line workers during the Corona outbreak. Also, Xingyun 2-01 was named Wuhan.
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