Published: May 19th, 2023,
Last updated: May 19th, 2023

We are used to pictures of rocket launches in the desert. Not so in China. A launch vehicle of the type „Long March 3B“ took off on Wednesday from the Xichang satellite launch center in the densely overgrown forests of Sichuan province. On board: a Beidou satellite, the Chinese equivalent of the US GPS system, the European Galileo network or the Russian GLONASS.