A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sept. 27, 2025. (Photo by Shang Yuhang/Xinhua)

TAIYUAN, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Saturday.

The satellite group, the eleventh of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 8:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket.

The satellites entered preset orbit successfully.

Saturday's launch marked the 597th mission of the Long March carrier rockets. ■

A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sept. 27, 2025. (Photo by Shang Yuhang/Xinhua)

A modified Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying a group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sept. 27, 2025. (Photo by Shang Yuhang/Xinhua)