Time ：Dec-16, 2020, 11:15
China on Saturday successfully sent twin into space on a single carrier rocket.
The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's at 7:52 a.m. It was the 283rd mission of the Long March rocket series, said a source of the launch center.
The twin satellites entered orbit more than three hours after the launch. After a series of tests, they will work together with 10 other BeiDou-3 satellites already in orbit.
The twin satellites were developed by the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the .
Named after the Chinese term for the Big Dipper, the BeiDou system started serving China in 2000 and the Asia-Pacific region in 2012.
(Source: Xinhua)