At 00:16 on August 15, China successfully sent its 2nd Beidou navigation satellite into the预定 orbit with the "Changzheng-3C" carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
Xinhua News Agency reported, quoting a person in charge of the China Satellite Navigation Engineering Center, that the Beidou navigation satellite (COMPASS-G2) launched this time is the second networking satellite in the construction plan of the Beidou Satellite Navigation System (COMPASS, Chinese phonetic translation Bei Dou). It is a geosynchronous earth orbit satellite. The successful launch of this satellite is of great significance to the construction of the Beidou satellite navigation system.