China science, technology news summary -- Aug. 17

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

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China launched a Long March-4B carrier rocket on Friday to place a new group of remote sensing satellites in space.

The satellites of the Yaogan-43 01 group will be mainly used for carrying out tests on new technologies of low-orbit constellations.

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