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China carried out two launches in less than 24 hours to send a new batch of satellites from the Guowang space internet project and Yaogan-40 satellites into orbit. This brings the country to 70 orbital launch attempts in 2026, as it seeks to surpass 100 launches before the end of the year.
China successfully launched a Long March 12 rocket carrying the twenty-fourth operational batch of satellites for the Guowang constellation, less than a week after the failure of Long March 7A. It also launched a Long March 2C rocket carrying an experimental Emirati Earth-observation satellite, bringing the number of Chinese launches in 2026 to 59.