JIUQUAN — China successfully sent four meteorological satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday.

The satellites were launched by a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket at 9:00 a.m. (Beijing time) and have entered the planned orbit.

The satellites belonged to the Tianmu-1 meteorological constellation,

They will be mainly used to provide commercial meteorological data services, Xinhua reported.

It was the 23rd flight mission of the Kuaizhou-1A rockets. — courtesy Xinhua