China’s Lijian-1 Y2 launcher lifted off Wednesday with 26 satellites on boardwhich will mainly be used for technology verification and commercial remote sensing information services.

This spacecraft took off at 12:10 local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in the northwest of the country, take the group of experimental satellites to their planned orbits.

Today’s launch marked the second flight mission of the Lijian-1 series of launch vehicles, the news agency said. Xinhua.

“This time we had more satellites on board and we had to make sure they all separated successfully.while we had to ensure the precision of the launch into orbit,” Shi Xiaoning, one of the Lijian-1 engineers, told Worldwide times. The expert added that the engineers had “confidence in the rocket”, the reliability of which “has already been verified”.

China hopes to become a space superpower in the coming decades. It is the third country in history to put astronauts in space and build a space station, after the Soviet Union (now Russia) and the United States.