China launches two new satellites

China launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket on Monday, placing two satellites into space. The rocket blasted off at 7:39 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and sent the pair of satellites, Siwei Gaojing-2 03 and Siwei Gaojing-2 04, into the preset orbit. It was the 547th flight mission of the Long March series of rockets launched by China.