The launch of a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the same launch vehicle that carried China’s second telecom test satellite to orbit. Photo: Wikimedia

[Via Satellite 01-06-2016] China successfully launched its second telecommunication technology test satellite on Jan. 5 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Xinhua, China’s sate-run news source, has reported.

The satellite was launched at 11:18 p.m. local time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.