ExPace Technology has successfully launched two SpaceTY satellites for remote sensing of the Earth, announced the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), of which the aforesaid company is a part.

As specified on WeChat, the launch of the Kuaizhou 11 carrier rocket, which sent SpaceTY spacecraft No. 51 and 52 into orbit, took place at 10:40 Beijing time on Thursday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northern China.

The solid-fuel four-stage Kuaizhou 11, with a launch thrust of 1,250 kilonewtons, is 25 meters long and is capable of delivering up to 1.5 tons of payload to low Earth orbit—and up to 1 ton to a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit. This is its seventh mission, the third of which is in 2026.