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2025-02-11 19:00:31
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | SatNet LEO Group 02 (Demo Flight)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-02-11T09:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A
📖 **Details**: Demonstration flight of the Long March 8A rocket with upgraded first stage and boosters engines, and a new larger liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen second stage with new YF-75H engines derived from ones used on the Long March 5.
Payload is a batch of Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.
The constellation will eventually consists of 13000 satellites.
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