TAIYUAN - China's Long March 6C carrier rocket made its debut flight on Tuesday, placing four satellites in space.

The rocket blasted off at 11:21 am (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province, sending Neptune-01 and Smart-1C, as well as a wide-band optical satellite and a high-resolution video satellite into planned orbits.

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